May 13, 2016

The Urbanarium Debate: City-wide Plan?

Have to post this for obvious reasons (spoiler alert: Meggs and Price won).

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Vancouver allows a lot of wiggle room in its zoning requirements to be able to negotiate trade-offs with developers. That can spawn public amenities, but sometimes public backlash as well. Time to stop this “spot zoning” and nail down a city-wide plan?

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  1. Do all the jaw jaw jaw you like. Plan plan plan until the cows come home. It will be forgotten before the ink dries. And those three smiley faces know it!

    I am thinquing of the few great cities I have known: Montreal, New York, London, Mexico City, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Oaxaca, York (I attended school in medieval York) etc etc.

    They all came about by . . . how the hell did they cmoeo about anyway? By circumstance, not paper planning by three well groomed no bodies stuck out there on that Point?

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