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The Bartholomew Plan and the False Creek Flats: Taking Industry to the Heart of the City
As City of Vancouver deliberates over the future of the False Creek Flats, the Bartholomew Plan provides one unfulfilled vision of area. In 1928, Harland Bartholomew and Associates were hired by the Vancouver Town Planning Commission to develop the first (and only) master plan for the nascent City of Vancouver — a plan was never… »
A Pattern for Tomorrow: Regional Planning in Metro Vancouver 1.0
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… »
Back to the Future: Harland Bartholomew’s Street Profiles for Metro Vancouver
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… »