There’s going to be a flood of articles profiling Vancouver as the Olympics focus international attention on us. Please send me anything you come across and I’ll try to link to as many as possible. Oh look, here’s the first wave …
Vancouver engineers its own urban dream.
From the Los Angeles Times: “The city imposes notions of sustainability in its decisions on what, where and how to build. Still, it’s not quite the utopia.”
You can tell it’s from the LA Times–their biggest complaint is traffic delays / the lack of freeways. Heh.
Overall, not a bad article. It does point out, to the dismay of some, that doctrine and reality are two very different things.
My friends from LA who visit me love Vancouver for its lack of freeways. But in LA’s sprawl they are now an “evil” necessity. People frequently commute over 1.5hrs each way daily. The NIMBY’s in LA are terrified of denser housing development. They love thier quarter acre lots with pools.
“The NIMBY’s in LA are terrified of denser housing development. They love thier quarter acre lots with pools.”
Bob, I find this hard to accept. According to somethings I have read densities in LA are not as low as some believe, except in the outlying areas. And the notion of quarter acre lots or more must be for extremely high income groups, they would hardly be the norm.