12 Great Ideas for Vancouver from Around the World
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Vancouver may be one of the world’s most livable and sustainable cities—but other cities around the world can offer lessons to make us even better.
Over the past five decades, Vancouver architect and planner Michael Geller has visited 55 countries in search of interesting places and good planning ideas: better use of water, improved public spaces, innovative approaches to lighting and enhanced civic pride.
Come hear and see 12 ideas on how to make Vancouver a healthier, friendlier, more beautiful and creative city.
Michael Geller is an architect, planner, real estate consultant and property developer with four decades’ experience in the public, private and institutional sectors. He serves on the Adjunct Faculty of the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development and writes a weekly civic affairs column in the Vancouver Courier. A past-president of the Urban Development Institute, he travels extensively and writes a blog here.
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A symmetrical street with identical buildings on each side (sadly destroyed in Christchurch earthquake)
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Wednesday, April 1
7–9 pm
Room 1400, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street
Free, but reservations are required Reserve.
Transit and pedestrian activity seem to mix well here. Admittedly, it is a tourist oriented, historic tram system that runs in a single direction but it operates on transit frequencies (http://welcomeaboard.co.nz/christchurch-tram/). So why can’t it be tried on Robson St., instead of forcing transit riders on a circuitous route to downtown due to the annual summer-time closure at the VAG?
“A symmetrical street with identical buildings on each side”
This would be decried in Vancouver as befitting a theme-park.
That photo is of New Regent Street in Christchurch. It got moderately damaged in the earthquake, but reopened almost two years ago: http://www.futurechristchurch.co.nz/central-city/new-regent-street
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Not sure if I made reservations for 4 correctly. Please call or email me if I did not.
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