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The Bartholomew Plan and the False Creek Flats: Taking Industry to the Heart of the City

By ayan

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… »

The Long Road Back to the Downtown Vancouver of the 1940s

By ayan

While Vancouver’s lack of Inner City Freeways is often cited as one of the “nine decisions that saved paradise”, it did not necessarily stop sprawl, but severely impeded. More importantly, it set the stage for the re-urbanization of Vancouver’s downtown core in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Even so, despite its recent history of… »

Who might the next 120,000 Vancouverites be?

By ayan

For most of the City of Vancouver’s history, population growth has symbolized the vitality and the desirability of the City and its region. In its first 25 years, Vancouver grew by 700 percent. Since the end of the Second World War, the City has grown steadily by 15 percent every 10 years with the… »

Back to the Future: Harland Bartholomew’s Street Profiles for Metro Vancouver

By ayan

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… »