Matthew Soules is an architect (his firm is MSA) as well as an adjunct prof at UBC. He and Mari Fujita, Assistant Professor at UBC’s School of Architecture, have written as essay for Praxis that explains the “Seven Points of EcoMetropolitanism.” Warning: there’s a bit of the ol’ academic archispeak here, but it’s worth wading through to get to the core idea:
If Vancouver is the model of density and diversity within a livable framework, EcoMet is an accelerated version. EcoMet increases density and livability while amplifying and exploiting the relationship of the natural environment by synthesizing the production of metropolitan culture with that of ecologically designed architectural environments. From these tenets, the EcoMetropolis emerges: the hyper dense, super diverse, and radically optimized city.
Lots of great images too:
