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The Neighbourhood That Saved Vancouver

Today, Vancouver is praised for its record of good planning and livability, but it wasn’t always so. In the 1950s planners and politicians saw the east side neighbourhoods as a threat to the well being of the city and they set out to wipe out the blight. From the 1957 redevelopment report: “…delay is expensive.… Continue reading The Neighbourhood That Saved Vancouver

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Project 200, The Really Nasty Version

Digging through the files I found this image of the proposed Project 200 for the waterfront of Vancouver looking east from Stanley Park. Someone was channeling Hugh Ferris. Yikes.