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It's interrupted in its path by the viaducts, but the highway begins again to cut through Stanley Park and cross to the North Shore. Vancouver's not a particul
by dleslie 5y ago
It's interrupted in its path by the viaducts, but the highway begins again to cut through Stanley Park and cross to the North Shore.
Vancouver's not a particularly well-designed city; its lack of a fully through highway is more a circumstance of indecision than design. It's still a city hampered by office districts and bedroom communities, linked with stroads, like many North American cities.
Glad I left.
- cameronpm 5y agowhat cities do you consider well designed and why?
- dleslie 5y agoThere aren't any, really; because we didn't spend the 20th Century thinking of alternatives to commuting via personal automobile from bedrooms to offices.
- xyzzyz 5y agoA true well designed city have not been tried yet.
- skeeter2020 5y agoDo you actually design a city, waterfall style? Wouldn't you just end up with Canberra, the most boring city ever, or Disney World?
- xyzzyz 5y agoYes, just like with communism, to which I alluded in my comment, with urban design we also have a problem of figuring out what people want, where, and how much of it. The “urban design” people often have the similar mindset to communist planners, who knew better what people should want than the people themselves.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoTokyo does well. Ubiquitous public transit does wonders. Singapore is supposed to be pretty good as well, but I’ve never left Changi to tell.
- freeone3000 5y agoMontreal is nice. Most people, even as far out as Outremont, have a grocery store within walking distance. Metro map could be improved but is decent for the core. Transit runs decently during peak times. Main issue is lack of bike lanes, but there's always a shortage of bixis so apparently people do cycle. Easy access to parks, I've got two within walking distance. Unfortunately the metro does stop at around 1a, so going on a downtown bar until closing means you're taking a night bus back.
- cameronpm 5y agoI agree. Montreal is better than Vancouver. They have a really good mix of height limited multi family zoning and commercial streets.