MOV Exhibit: Vancouver Imagined: The Way We Weren't

[Millennium2002]

If you feel that downtown is not imposing enough, there's always time to deveop downtown Surrey and turn it into something that Vancouver wasn't.

But I digress, all of this takes decades and tons of money... Surely some of us will live to see the end of it, but not all of us will. And there will be many pitfalls and compromises along the way as vision and realities clash.

If I am missing something... I guess it'd be the east-west route to Downtown and the waterfront developments. And oh maybe a new connection to the north shore. But otherwise, we're pretty complete as it is... and we managed to get here without destroying entire areas of the city to shreds.

[connect2source]

Originally Posted by Stingray2004

Yep:

Thanks for this!! Looks as though, if these drawings are accurate, could have possibly been expanded to 8 lanes, or the Skytrain could have been incorporated into the centre section. Regardless, if well designed this could have worked well.

[Kisai]

Originally Posted by allan_kuan

If you feel that downtown is not imposing enough, there's always time to deveop downtown Surrey and turn it into something that Vancouver wasn't.

If we let Surrey have it's way, it would have Canada's largest towers, and be serviced by an inadequate LRT system that goes nowhere.

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vanc...8-4e98ff2eb45e
BY THE VANCOUVER SUN OCTOBER 27, 2005

SURREY - Preliminary plans are underway to construct Canada's tallest highrise in Surrey -- a massive 81-storey building with residential, commercial and hotel space, Mayor Doug McCallum says.

"This will be the tallest building in Canada," McCallum told The Vancouver Sun in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

...
Critics frequently say that Surrey's land-use strategy contradicts the GVRD's Livable Region Strategic Plan, which encourages cities to plan new developments near town centres and transit hubs.

I'm not sure if this is the same building: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=53802 , but 36 is quite a nerf from 81, unless that's not the only building.

OH WAIT:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/busin...263/story.html

Dianne Watts is in favour of projects like the giant Jung Ventures five towers project at Old Yale Road and King George.

APRIL 26, 2014 10:23 PM

At any rate. I've been to several large Canadian and American cities, and the general feel of Metro Vancouver is that it's very compact. When people come to Vancouver from somewhere else, they do generally comment on farms and where downtown is. NYC, Seattle and San Francisco have generally similar land use issues, you just can't create new land without sacrificing farms or landfilling the waterfront.

[WarrenC12]

Yep, put that 81 story tower up next to a vacant lot with old abandoned mattresses...

[trofirhen]

This whole project idea is worse than the ugliest, most grotesque cityscapes to be found in Mississauga or anywhere else.