The Georgia Straight recently published on cover article on BTAworks’ upcoming atlas and toolkit on the Neighborhood Effects of Global Climate Change. Click here… »
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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… »
BTAworks In the News
The Georgia Straight recently published on cover article on BTAworks’ upcoming atlas and toolkit on the Neighborhood Effects of Global Climate Change. Click here to read the article. Watch this blog for Part One of the… »
Laneway Housing in the City of Vancouver: Let’s Make the Most of It
The City should be congratulated for considering the vast swaths of our single family neighborhoods with an eye to densification through building laneway housing. But as the City of Vancouver establishes its policy on laneway housing, it needs to think more broadly – in particular about what kind of housing the city really needs… »
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… »