Viewpoint Vancouver

Price Tags Media Society

4.8 (20)
PERSONAL JOURNALS

Vancouver's source for Urbanism, Insight, and Evolution. Hosted by Gordon Price, former Vancouver City Councillor and Director of the SFU City Program lecture series. Featuring interviews with leading players and emerging voices on issues of urban planning, architecture, housing, transportation, politics, culture, and public spaces.

2022-10-28

Michael Von Hausen: How does False Creek forecast the future?

Join Visionary Urbanist Michael von Hausen for a broad yet intimate perspective on Vancouver urban design, from the '70s through to the present day. Michael has been laying Vancouver's groundwork since the ’80s, as a key designer in the early development of False Creek. His multi-disciplinary perspective on urban design draws from landscape architecture, planning, design, and development, to forge an urban ‘greenfrastructure’ to feed our bellies as well as our urban souls. Togethe...

1h 11m
2022-10-06

Price and Ladner place bets on Election '22

With 10 days counting down to Election Day, Gordon Price pulls in ex-NPA-Council-crony-turned-urban-food-security-activist-and-all-around-mensch Peter Ladner for a frank talk on what is up with this wacky election. With 58 candidates for Vancouver City Council and 10 registered parties in the running, how can we make sense of it all? Among the many chewy topics on the table, Gord and Peter consider: can anyone entice the centre Left to ride to a City Hall majority—and do these labels still ha...

52 min
2022-09-20

'Vanbikes' Chronicler Colin Stein tracks the history of Vancouver's Bicycle Revolution

In this very special episode, author Colin Stein unveils an epic portrait of our place and time: Vanbikes: Vancouver's Bicycle People and the Fight for Transportation Change, 1986-2011 (An Oral History). In conversation with Gordon and a room full of fans, he relates how the bicycle people transformed Vancouver, and how Vancouver transformed Colin Stein. Related as a series of discussions and anecdotes and packed with photos and memorabilia, Vanbikes tells of culture change from the ins...

1h 8m
2022-03-25

Makin' it in Dubai - a Viewpoint Podcast Special

Welcome to a special dispatch from Gordon Price, checking in from Expo 2022 in Dubai. (With our apologies for the sound quality. At a place like Expo, it was the quietest place he could find.) One of the best things about a world’s fair—after you’ve visited the pavilions, tasted the food, listened to the music —is oddly, also one of the worst things: standing in lines. Because it is in those lineups where you’re likely to engage with people from other places in way you never othe...

34 min
2022-02-18 · BONUS

Three Quick Questions for John Coupar

Welcome to Episode Three of Viewpoint Vancouver's election podcast feature: Three Quick Questions. Where, in under ten minutes, Gordon puts civic candidates on the spot with three unusual questions designed to reveal who they are and what really makes them tick. This time up, Gord turns the political spotlight on John Coupar, running as the NPA's candidate for Mayor of the City of Vancouver. Listen in on John's long behind-the-scenes family history with the Vancouver Park Board, a...

10 min
2022-01-26 · BONUS

Three Quick Questions for Ken Sim

Listen in for Episode Two of Viewpoint Vancouver's election podcast feature: Three Quick Questions. Where, in under ten minutes, Gordon puts civic candidates on the spot with three unusual questions designed to reveal who they are and what really makes them tick. This time up, Gord puts it to Ken Sim, running for Mayor of City of Vancouver with A Better City. For more about Ken check out kensim.ca. ********************************************* The Viewpoint Podcast is a production of V...

9 min
2022-01-19

BurnaBOOM! Post-war bungalows and transit-hub skyscrapers can make for uneasy neighbors. Lee-Ann Garnett brings the Burnaby housing story to life.

The great “BurnaBOOM” started off in the ‘50s, as Willingdon Heights came to model the suburban ideal: a gridded neighborhood of wide streets, tidy flower gardens, and modest single-family bungalows. To some extent, it is still that—but so much more. Lee-Ann Garnett, Burnaby’s Deputy Director of Planning and Building, tells the evolving story of Burnaby housing through the eyes of Albert and Clara—an archetypal blue-collar couple who leave the prairies after the war, to settle in Burnaby and ...

1h 1m
2022-01-10 · BONUS

Three Quick Questions for Mark Marissen

Join Viewpoint Vancouver for a quickie! Introducing our new Election feature: Three Quick Questions, where, in under ten minutes, Gordon puts civic candidates on the spot with three unusual questions designed to reveal who they are and what really makes them tick. First up in the series: Mark Marissen, running for Mayor of City of Vancouver with Progress Vancouver. What has Amsterdam got that Vancouver doesn't, creating a safer and more vibrant downtown? Mark has an idea. For more of ...

8 min

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Why aren’t you listening to this yet?

2019-08-13

Josh Kepkay, North Van Realtor

Following municipal politics in the lower mainland is exhausting. I am tremendously thankful for the service podcasts like this and others provide. Expect the wisdom and insights accrued over decades distilled into, more often than not, fantastic interviews.
Vancouver Urbanism 101

2019-01-25

A-wooh man

Totally biased review, as I produce the podcast, and have hosted a few episodes. That said, the episodes hosted by Gord - his guests, interview style and the content generated by those conversations - have been like a mini-graduate degree in urban studies for me. I give 3-4X as much time listening to the content in editing as I do during the recording, and am continually amazed by how much value I get out of the episodes. Informative, compelling (often funny), and both timely and timeless.
An Urbanist's Must-Listen

2019-01-16

Neophyte Urbanist

What makes Vancouver a unique urban place? This podcast takes you into the areas that matter.

Vancouver's source for Urbanism, Insight, and Evolution. Hosted by Gordon Price, former Vancouver City Councillor and Director of the SFU City Program lecture series. Featuring interviews with leading players and emerging voices on issues of urban planning, architecture, housing, transportation, politics, culture, and public spaces.

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Price Tags Media Society
Years Active

2018 - 2022
Episodes

75
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Explicit
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Viewpoint Vancouver

Viewpoint Vancouver

Michael Von Hausen: How does False Creek forecast the future?

Price and Ladner place bets on Election '22

'Vanbikes' Chronicler Colin Stein tracks the history of Vancouver's Bicycle Revolution

Makin' it in Dubai - a Viewpoint Podcast Special

Three Quick Questions for John Coupar

Three Quick Questions for Ken Sim

BurnaBOOM! Post-war bungalows and transit-hub skyscrapers can make for uneasy neighbors. Lee-Ann Garnett brings the Burnaby housing story to life.

Three Quick Questions for Mark Marissen

Why aren’t you listening to this yet?

Vancouver Urbanism 101

An Urbanist's Must-Listen

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Episodes

Michael Von Hausen: How does False Creek forecast the future?

Price and Ladner place bets on Election '22

'Vanbikes' Chronicler Colin Stein tracks the history of Vancouver's Bicycle Revolution

Makin' it in Dubai - a Viewpoint Podcast Special

Three Quick Questions for John Coupar

Three Quick Questions for Ken Sim

BurnaBOOM! Post-war bungalows and transit-hub skyscrapers can make for uneasy neighbors. Lee-Ann Garnett brings the Burnaby housing story to life.

Three Quick Questions for Mark Marissen

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Vancouver Urbanism 101

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