Vancouver
1928:
Hired Harland Barthalomew Associates to draft a plan for the City of Vancouver
- Topics in plan:
- Population Growth
- In 1885, population was ~1000
- In 1927, population was ~189484
- Estimated 1 mil by 1961 (did not happen)
- Imagined dense city downtown, dense Kitsilano, Granville.
- Street Network
- Public transportatin
- Rail (goods) network
- Public recreation
- Standards:
- Plagrounds:
- Preschool - small lots
- School age - schoolyards 100 sq ft playground/student
- Playfields
- Associated with highschools
- Neighborhood parks
- 20 Acres minimum
- 2500 families
- 1/2 mile walking distance
- Community Centres
- Indoor recreation
- One in every neighborhood
- Large Parks:
- Preserve all types of native landscape
- Each park with a distinct feature (golf course, botanical garden)
- Pleasure Drives
- Boulevards connecting all large pakrs
- Same may follow topography
- Plagrounds:
- Standards:
- Zoning
- Civic Art
- Population Growth
1992 Urban Landscape Task Force
- Understand the values of the urban landscape and recommend how to manage, protect, and enhance it
- Recommendations (select):
- Establish urban greenways
- Celebrate legacies
- Prepare a public realm plan
- Develop a street strategy
- Undertake a landscape inventory
- Prepare an ecological management plan
- Ecological performance standards
- Promote the urban forest
- Cultivate the city of gardens
- Recommendations (select):
Vancouver Park Classifications:
- Destination (greater than 20 ha, many amenities)
- 5 of these; E.g., Stanley Park
- Community (6.4 ha, 6-15 amenities)
- 101 of these: E.g., English bay park
- Neighborhood (2.6 ha, 3-7 ameniites)
- 50 of these: E.g., Maple Park
- Local (.54 ha, under 4 amenities)
- E.g., Ash Park
- Urban Plaza (.4 ha, under 3 amenities)