Produced by Saba Farmand and Paul Albi, “Surroundings” is a video series that tells the stories behind some of Metro Vancouver’s well-known public places from the perspectives of the landscape architects who designed them.
Episode 3 features Margot Long of the PWL Partnership and focuses on the role landscape architects play in planning and urban design.
Margot takes us on a walking tour through SouthEast False Creek and Olympic Village to show us what it looks like when transforming industrial land into an urban village.
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Chock full of explanations and observations by Margot. At 8:27, find out about the most interesting mistake the firm has ever made. Or at 11:20, why the trees on the Olympic Village seawall are growing twice as fast as any similar ones in the city. Or the story of Habitat Island at 12:10.
If you want a visual expression of the “City as Workout” – where the urban design encourages activity and exercise – this is it.
Congratulations Margot
You have created a Barrio Majico the city can be proud of.
Unlike La Ciudad . . .
http://members.shaw.ca/urbanismo/la.condessa/la.condesa.html
. . . and Montreal, for Vancouver this has been a long time a-cumin’.