Viewpoint Vancouver
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.
Episodes
75 episodes
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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1:10:57
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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52:27
'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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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1:07:43
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 68
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34:09
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 wha...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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9:58
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 wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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8:43
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 67
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1:01:04
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 w...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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7:59
North Van's got urban soul—and big city challenges. Councillor Tony Valente reveals.
The City of North Van is no bedroom community. With sexy projects like the Shipyards, the Polygon Art Gallery, and new Lonsdale patios and covered seating, North Van is quickly becoming a destination city. In fact, the City has the lowest perce...
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Season 2
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Episode 66
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48:00
Translink unveils TRANSPORT 2050, and Policy Development Manager Eve Hou is here to spill the beans.
Big news for the Region! Translink has just unveiled Transport 2050: its blueprint for the next 30 years of regional mobility. Gordon talks to Translink Manager of Policy Development Eve Hou about the evolution of this important d...
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Season 2
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Episode 65
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50:30
Big Moves: Urbanist Anthony Perl on Global Agendas, Local Aspirations, and Urban Mobility
All countries have distinctive urban regions, but Canadian cities especially differ from one another in culture, structure, and history. SFU prof Anthony Perl’s new book Big Moves: Global Agendas, Local Aspirations, and Urban Mobility...
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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46:41
Panels, manels or womels? Mo Amir helps Gordon Price unpack the intricacies of modern lexicon
An OWG (Old White Guy) enlists the aid of a YBG (Young Brown Guy) in unpacking modern socio-political vocabulary.Can white people be 'racialized'? Is equity of opportunity the same as equity of outcome? What is privilege, really? Who ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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1:00:48
From Kitsilano hippies to Strathcona tent city: Judy Graves believes in housing for all.
Throughout her 33-year career, Judy Graves was the public face of City Hall to those living in Vancouver's streets and shelters. She knew who they were, what they needed, and how to get a roof over their heads. She reached out to...
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Episode 62
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1:08:37
Ahead of the Curve, On the Leading Edge, at the Next Frontier, Marc Lee Is Looking There
Marc Lee has a sort of duality imbued in him that gives him a unique perspective on the world. Raised by a single mother who put him through private school at the prestigious Upper Canada College, Marc developed a perspective on both sid...
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Episode 61
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1:05:10
In a World of Acrimonious Political Discourse, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones Has Some Words of Hope
Recently retired from federal politics, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones has had a distinguished career; from grassroots local politics, to helping improve the peace and security of women on a global scale. Gord and Pamela talk about ...
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Episode 60
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1:00:30
Mark Sakai on Building For a Warming Future, the Grand Bargain, and Housing Affordability
Director of government relations for the Homebuilders Association Vancouver and 4th generation Japanese-Canadian Mark Sakai talks internment, immigration, growing up in Steveston and housing.Housing. What’s important? Mark asks: c...
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Episode 59
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1:05:48
To Gian Singh Sandhu, Success Means Not Taking a Back Seat to Anybody
While the majority of the 27 million practitioners of Sikhism live in India — most living in the state of Punjab — half a million Sikhs reside in Canada.In fact, 1 in 20 British Columbians is Sikh. And according to Gian Singh Sand...
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Episode 58
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1:09:53
Greens’ Adriane Carr on Working with Communities to Prepare for Sea Change
If you needed more evidence that environmental issues are no longer fringe issues, all you have to do is look at Vancouver Greens’ Adriane Carr.Her 74,000 votes in the 2014 municipal election was the most by a Vancouver coun...
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Episode 57
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1:02:15
No Days Off for Sarah Blyth or the Downtown Eastside
Sarah Blyth first started to see the spike in drug overdoses in the Downtown Eastside community in 2016.From her vantage point as manager of the DTES Market, she couldn’t help but see it. People were literally dying in the s...
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Episode 56
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28:51
Rookie Councillor Ahmed Yousef on the Changing Face of Maple Ridge
It wasn’t that long ago that British Columbians were saying, “What the hell is going on in Maple Ridge?”In 2014, voters elected Nicole Read as mayor of the region’s eastern outpost …and then subjected...
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Episode 55
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1:05:06
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Member Wade Grant, on What Canada is Today
What does it mean to change a street name? What does it mean to be able to fish? What does it mean to have title over the land upon which you, and your people, were born?This line of questioning may not immediately resonate with t...
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Episode 54
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1:03:09
From Thin Soup to Dreamland: The Social Impact of SCARP Alumni Thomas Bevan & Bob Williams
The latest in our Passing the Torch series introduces us to Thomas Bevan, a Millennial who’s already left his mark on Vancouver.From his youth in Kitchener, Ontario — and a “difficult relationship” with a downtow...
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Episode 53
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1:04:01
Talking NIMBYism, Populism & Campaign 2022 with George Affleck
One thing is proven without a doubt in this wide-ranging, deep political dive with Gord, Rob, and return guest George Affleck — these guys don’t know their Tolkien.And while there was no cranky, right-wing guy in Middle Eart...
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Episode 52
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35:03
Brent Toderian: It Was the Best of Jobs, It Was the Worst of Jobs
A tale of two city-makers — one, a son of the working poor, who showed an early knack for creation and collaboration, in part through the use of polyhedral dice; the other, a world-renowned urban planner, with
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Episode 51
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1:08:48
Lon LaClaire on Challenges, Cost/Benefits, and ‘Aha’ Moments for Transportation in Vancouver
It was 2009, Vancouver was about to become the largest metro region to host a winter Olympic Games, and the city faced a challenge of similarly grandiose proportions — how to accommodate a 30% increase in downtown transportation trips al...
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Episode 50
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