It could have been this:
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This rendering from 1971 was a vision of a new regional town centre. But where? And what happened?
To find out, go to Price Points at SpacingVancouver.
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I’m unfortunately not that familiar with Burnaby. Could someone post a gmaps streetview link for somewhere Jacobs-liveable? A cluster of short blocks of interesting things. Thanks.
Joe Wolf here, introduced to your blog by our mutual friend Brian Williamson. I recently moved to Seattle for work (planning head for Seattle Public Schools). Lived previously in San Diego for many years and thought you might find these images re. San Diego’s planning and development history interesting.;
San Diego Bayfront Plan: Schematic From John Nolen’s Plan For San Diego (1908)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joebehr/4772946434/
Geraniums Versus Smokestacks? Editorial Cartoon From San Diego Mayoral Race/Growth Debate, 1917
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joebehr/4772012491/
Gordon, you write in SpacingVancouver:
“Sixta, by the way, got a lot of things right:
[…] He suggested that automobiles should be moved underground to accommodate the free-flow of pedestrians.”
Well that is exactly what LeCorbusier has explained before, and the rendering effectively suggests to “kill the street” to replace it with a taylorist vision of its functions:…The road to hell is paved with good intention…
No injure to Sixta, whose has been thinking with his time, but the reasoning which consists to say that “automobiles should be moved underground to accommodate the free-flow of pedestrians” is a wrong one (That is one of the emphasis of this post
http://voony.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/an-avenue-in-neuilly/ ).