#vancouverism

[rabbitcruiser]

Downtown Vancouver (No. 1)

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City).

Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently ranked one of the most livable cities in Canada and in the world. In terms of housing affordability, Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities in Canada and in the world. Vancouver plans to become the greenest city in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy.

Indigenous settlement of Vancouver began more than 10,000 years ago, and included the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard) peoples. The beginnings of the modern city, which was originally named Gastown, grew around the site of a makeshift tavern on the western edges of Hastings Mill that was built on July 1, 1867, and owned by proprietor Gassy Jack. The Gastown steam clock marks the original site. Gastown then formally registered as a townsite dubbed Granville, Burrard Inlet. The city was renamed "Vancouver" in 1886, through a deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was extended to the city by 1887. The city's large natural seaport on the Pacific Ocean became a vital link in the trade between Asia-Pacific, East Asia, Europe, and Eastern Canada.

Source: Wikipedia

[batz]

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[azpaintingltd]

Discovering Nearby Gems of Queen Elizabeth Park

Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently ranked one of the most livable cities in Canada and in the world. In terms of housing affordability, Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities in Canada and in the world. Vancouver plans to become the greenest city in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy.

Queen Elizabeth Park

Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver’s horticultural jewel, is a major draw for floral display enthusiasts and view-seekers, and as a popular backdrop for wedding photos. At 125 m above sea level, it’s the highest point in Vancouver and makes for spectacular views of the park, city, and mountains on the North Shore.

The 52-hectare park is home to the stunning Bloedel Conservatory. There is also a gorgeously landscaped quarry garden, the arboretum with its collection of exotic and native trees, sculptures including one by internationally renowned artist Henry Moore, and diverse recreational offerings such as tennis, lawn bowling and pitch & putt. The park is also the perfect setting for fine dining at Seasons in the Park, a picnic or stargazing!

Queen Elizabeth Park is a beautiful place to visit, and with so many activities it's hard not to find something for everyone in your group. Whether you're looking for a great place for a quick walk or want to spend the day immersing yourself in nature and culture in this urban oasis, Queen Elizabeth Park has something for everyone!

Bloedel Conservatory

Bloedel Conservatory is a domed lush paradise located in Queen Elizabeth Park atop the City of Vancouver’s highest point. More than 100 exotic birds, and 500 exotic plants and flowers thrive within its temperature-controlled environment. Constructed through a very generous donation from Prentice Bloedel, Bloedel was dedicated at its opening in 1969 “to a better appreciation and understanding of the world of plants."

Designated as a heritage building, it is jointly operated by Vancouver Park Board and the Vancouver Botanical Garden Association. Together, these partners also operate VanDusen Botanical Garden.

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[urbaneers]

An ideal city for me is one with mixed-use zoning that allows businesses to be mixed with residential areas to create an efficient, accessible, and walkable city. An example of this is Vancouverism. It is characterized by tall residential buildings in the city center with businesses and markets on the pedestrian level. The effect of this concept is less suburban sprawl and more green spaces for people to enjoy without having to drive.

[smallstudiodesign]

“Don’t ask me ... I just work(ed) here.” FbFriday: [👈🏼 slides] Smallstudio Design ~> oh I don’t know - it’s not like I’m the only one who was an #influencer ... but I know I was one of the many who had #influenced the #urbanplanning #urbandesign #vancouverwaterfront ~ specifically #falsecreek & the #shapeofthingstocome or as they’ve come to be ... #sosueme #design #architecture #construction #designbuild #thenandnow #city #vancouverism #newfortunecity #flashbackfriday #smallstudiodesign (at False Creek Science World)

[hotanddistraught]

do we think quinn hughes knows what a compass card is

[yuriartibise]

#CityConv is getting underway with @LBeasleyyvr & Ann McAfee talking about #Vancouverism @SFUPublicSquare @SFUVan @downtownvan (at Lot 19) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0EgA11BXEj/?igshid=1mgxg97999nbc

[art-and-the-hockeys]

wallpapers • brock boeser + dark minimalism (iphone x)

Requested by anon

Credits of the wallpapers’ elements and style go to their respective owners. I only assembled them to make the wallpapers.

like & reblog if you use

[nickvoit]

From the up for grabs. 🙏🏼 · · · #vancouverartist #vancouverartists #vancouverart #vancouverism #vancouvertattooshow #vancouvertattoo #vancouvertattoos #blackout #blackandgreytattoo #nickola #nickolatattoos (at Vancouver Tattoo and Culture Show)

[ajaegerpilot]

my caffeine pill @ me when i complain about it not working

[vfdinthewild]

“Their proportions varied from district to district, but sometimes over half the houses had these secondary units.”

-from Vancouverism by Larry Beasley, pg. 195

[rabbitcruiser]

Downtown Vancouver (No. 12)

Unlike many cities, Vancouver and its suburbs have no large plazas, squares, or public gathering spaces in the heart of the urban areas. The largest are the relatively small, terraced areas in Victory Square or Robson Square. Instead, cities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District are dotted with regular green spaces with 92% of residents of Vancouver proper being within a 5-minute walk of a green-space.

Vancouver's main public spaces are at the periphery: landscaped parks, the waterfront Plaza of Nations, the waterfront promenade at Canada Place, and the most active public space in the regions, the 22 km (13.7mile) long Seawall that rings the downtown peninsula. One possible influence for this was the 1935 Battle of Ballantyne Pier and reading of the Riot Act near Victory Square; shortly afterwards the location for the new city hall was selected out of the downtown core.

A modern hallmark of urban Vancouver is the abundance of slender "point towers" above low-rise podiums, also a key aspect of "Vancouverism." This urban design movement advocates high-density residential buildings with an emphasis on views, natural light, urban landscaping, public amenities, and active, pedestrian-oriented streets. Continuous podiums with retail or townhouses at the base define the street edge and add vibrancy. Slender towers allow more natural light to reach the street, a feature for the region's climate, and open view corridors of the sea and surrounding mountains. These features became key aspects of the city's zoning regulations.

Source: Wikipedia

[ega-talks]

Gil Kelley, Cities can lead change

Gil Kelley is the General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability at City of Vancouver. B.C. Canada. He is an internationally-recognized urban strategist and visionary and have served as chief planner for several West Coast cities in America as well as an independent advisor to cities and governments across the globe.

FILMED IN AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, 2018

EGA-TALKS is produced by Erik Giudice Architects: interviews with experts in the field of architecture, urbanism and related areas. EGA Talks is part of EGAs ongoing cross disciplinary research aiming to envision a sustainable future

I think that it’s it’s an important moment for cities. It’s a good moment and unique moment, in the history of the world.

In some ways we need to go back and remember that urbanization was a phenomenon that led to a lot of cultural advancement, both in terms of knowledge in the arts but also in terms of technological advancement.

We’ve been through a period where national governments have ascended to be the main unit of governance in the world. But I think now, we need to look to cities to be the leaders and the people really advancing change.

There’s no more critical change right now that needs to be addressed than climate change. Reducing our carbon footprint globally. As many of us know

Cities are leading the way in those kinds of solutions. I think going beyond just the superficial, the moment calls for us to think differently about cities. We’re breaking down all the constituent parts of what it means to be an urban environment and we put them back together again in a new way.

For me a couple of the guiding principles in doing that work are: Health, what does it mean to have a healthy population? Both physically, emotionally and spiritually.

What does it mean to have an earth that can be sustained? Bio-systems that can be sustained. We’re way past the notion that cities are where the hardscape is, we are where all the people are and nature is outside the city and that will be good enough. We know that we have to have a very different conception of what it is to be an urban dweller.

The notion of sustainability, health and long-term economic productivity. Goes to reconceiving the city as a place that has living systems in it.

There’s plenty of green. It has social gathering spaces. Mixes up the uses that we often separate. In the sort of mono-functional districts. An office district, residential district to an entertainment district. We should begin to really break the scale of those down and mix them up all together.

I think some of the technological advances are going to be helping us in that regard. Whether it has to do with the accessibility to all things via the internet.

Whether it has to do with potentially non fuel based autonomous vehicles that can do the short pieces. Investment in newer transport technologies. These kinds of things I think will enable a new kind of city-making, that we’ve been able to have in the past.

As we invent new solutions for deriving energy from clean sources, in fact just reducing the demand for energy in all of our buildings. In our transport system even in our manufacturing systems. I think all those things will be building one upon the other.

We’ll see a big acceleration from what we’ve seen before and the cost of those improvements will come down. The unit cost will come down.

It does mean being open and rethinking the way we live and work. A lot of that is just asking ourselves,

How do we want to live and work? How much do we care about the planet and the survivability of our culture for two three four more generations to come?

Because I think there’s no question that there is a threat, to the next generation from climate change.

Vancouver has done a fairly remarkable job for a city of its size. To really prioritize reducing the carbon footprint of the city.

It’s a moderately sized city, about 650,000 people. Roughly two and a half million in the metro area. It inherited a spectacular physical setting. Mountains, sea, dramatic landscape, pinned in by mountains and by an agricultural land preserve.

So spaces are scares and Vancouver has had to build in and not out. Build up. Along the way turned it’s environmentally ethos into aspects of city building. That are proven to be quite dramatic, in terms of environmental benefits.

We like to call ourselves the greenest city. I think we have tried to borrow lessons from European cities and others. Around everything from district energy to passive house design, robust electrical transport system. Banning certain materials and products etc.

We try to put as many of those best practices together as we’re can. Using the city organization as a corporate entity first to try out all these practices on ourselves and then ultimately encouraging them and require those of the community and the private sector.

[book-warehouse-broadway]

The new releases just keep coming! What’s on your TBR?

May 15

Vancouverism - Larry Beasley

May 21

Being John Lennon - Ray Connolly

Birthday - Meredith Russo

Cannae - Adrian Goldsworthy

Cari Mora - Thomas Harris

Facts and Fears - James R Clapper

The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer

Florida - Lauren Groff

Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett

Girl Gone Viral - Arvin Ahmadi

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki

Origin Story - David Christian

Pops - Michael Chabon

The Prairie Table - Karlynn Johnston

Rise of the Necrofauna - Britt Wray

Starlight - Richard Wagamese

The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy - Yanis Varoufakis

May 24

Modern Japanese Short Stories - Ivan Morris

May 28

Anthony Bourdain Remembered  - Cnn 

The Gameshouse - Claire North

Lands of Lost Borders - Kate Harris

Lent - Jo Walton

Long Road to Mercy - David Baldacci

Rome - Matthew Kneale

The Rosie Result - Graeme Simsion

The Sentence is Death - Anthony Horowitz

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered - Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Tear It Down - Nick Petrie 

Vanilla - Billy Merrell

May 30

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun - J R R Tolkien

[smallstudiodesign]

Throwback Thursday: "Mon Petit Cabin au Canada" 🇨🇦 ~ voici ici, c'est comme ça ~> 3 Vancouver Modernist Summer Vacation Cabins (#1956 #firplywood BCPMA*) hovering as if perched, ever so delicately, upon wee footprints. See book: L'Esprit nouveau : l'architecture moderne à Vancouver, 1938-1963 #summercabins #cabins #cottagecountry #woodframe #vancouverism #coastmodern The Modernist architecture of the 2 post-WWII decades established Vancouver's reputation as a center for progressive #design & culture, a city where architects pursued their desire "to make of architecture a great #humanistic experience." Modernism in Vancouver = the original "Vancouverism" or "Coast Modern", & has/had many facets: * a synthesis of expressions driven by a sense of #socialresponsibility ; * emphasized concerns such as economy of form, human uses, relation to site, affordability, & * the effective employment of new technology. * the ambition of Modernist #canadian architects "to enhance the physical environment for human well-being" in homes, community centers, libraries & universities, churches, office towers, & apartment buildings; * serves as a reminder of how high ideals & a lively #architectural culture can shape a better city. The #architects of Vancouver's early #modernism exhibited less "machine o'living" & more "symbiotic organic synthesis" emboldened by connection to Nature & how #architecture might fuse the two together. Somehow all that has been lost as we march further & further away from these critical years & into the #future. The planet seems to beg we find ways to return to something gentler & more lightweight & lighthearted upon the landscape. _____\____ *BCPMA = British Columbia Plywood Manufacturers Association #theowback #throwbackthursday (at British California)

[hotanddistraught]

god im absolutely obsessed with canucks being eliminated mid game as they have a 3 goal lead