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Vancouver, British Columbia - The popular belief that there are large numbers of empty downtown condos with offshore owners is largely disproved by a new study released by BTAworks. The study, undertaken to examine condo ownership in Downtown Vancouver also confirmed that the majority of the area’s condos are not-owner occupied.
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Created in 1949, the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board was the first regional planning entity in the Metro Vancouver region. The LMRPB’s geographic jurisdiction extended 160 kilometres up the Fraser Valley to Hope which coincided with the regional planning boundaries recommended by Harland Bartholomew. Bartholomew himself returned to Vancouver in 1946 to address the emerging… »

In 1926, the City of Vancouver’s Town Planning Commission hired Harland Bartholomew to prepare a comprehensive plan for a city region of 1 million people.  While never officially adopted by the City, Bartholomew’s plan would set the tone for Vancouver’s urban structure.  In the spirit of “what is old is new again”, the plan contained this profile and typology… »

Hello, World!
This is the new web presence for BTAworks and will feature the various papers, projects, and resources for the research and development division of Bing Thom Architects.
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