Why so uptight, Vancouver?
That question was irreverently asked by a grandmotherly-type at a City Conversation earlier this year. After the laughter died, the question remains: is Vancouver over-regulated? Does a neighbourhood festival require a single fenced-off street with controlled-entry beer gardens? Why do we need fences around sidewalk tables? Even our landscape can be rigid. Why are clipped lawns and view-blocking rows of trimmed cedar hedges dominant in one of the world’s richest growing climates?
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Please join Lance Berelowitz, planner, urban designer, and writer on urban issues; and Daniel Roehr, Landscape Architect and Associate Professor at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, for a provocative challenge to our city’s culture, look, and feel, and the costs to its vitality, creativity and livability.
Then it’s your turn to join the conversation, to question, observe, offer your opinions. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
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When: Thursday, November 6
Time: 12:30-1:3pm
Location: Room 1600 at SFU Harbour Centre
Cost: Free
Time: 12:30-1:3pm
Location: Room 1600 at SFU Harbour Centre
Cost: Free
The cedar hedge is one of my most hated things…On Halloween, walking along James St (crazy with kids) most houses were all lit up and full of decorations. Everyone skipped the one house with the 12 foot cedar hedges out front though…Just walls the house and landscaping off from the neighbourhood…just horrible.
Yes the provincial liquor law, forcing these fences around restaurant patios needs some serious revisioning. At the annual Christmas market in front of QE theatre one needs ID to get a liquor ticket to then buy a beer or mulled wine. Ridicolous indeed.
Vancouver’s ban on inflatable boats springs to mind. For people who don’t have space to store a hard-shell boat, or a large vehicle to transport it, a high-quality inflatable is a great way to get onto the water. But you have to get to Burnaby or beyond to do it.
The recent ban on e-cigs in public places is also ridiculous.
Yup .. big government always knows best what’s for you !