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… »
The Long Road Back to the Downtown Vancouver of the 1940s
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… »
Where Have All the Children Gone?
VANCOUVER - Research reveals that since 2004, enrollment in public elementary schools in the City of Vancouver has declined by more than 13 percent (over 2,600 students) — a continuation of a steady enrollment decline since 2000.
“While our overall City population has grown, it is surprising to discover that public elementary school enrollment has actually… »
Who might the next 120,000 Vancouverites be?
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… »
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… »
Downtown ‘Empty Condo’ phenomenon largely a myth, study finds
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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.
BTAworks, a new research… »
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… »