EVDS Professor Noel Keough explains why Calgary can learn a thing or two about Vancouver city design in FFWD Magazine.
"From a restaurant deck overlooking English Bay, it’s hard to imagine a more livable city than Vancouver. In the words of Captain Vancouver in 1792, “To describe the beauty of this region... will be a very grateful task to the pen.”
Beyond the city’s spectacular natural endowments, those who eventually settled in Vancouver have a long history of getting the big moves right. In his book, City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver, former mayor and provincial premier Mike Harcourt details his account of those big moves.
In 1949, two years after a historic flood that devastated the Fraser Valley region, visionary “pioneer planners” gave birth to the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board (LMRPB) — later succeeded by the Great Vancouver Regional District. The LMRPB envisioned a regional land use pattern, started the vital process of getting neighbouring cities, towns and rural municipalities talking to each other and embedded city planning in its ecological context."
To read the full article in FFWD, click here.