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Vancouver director of city planning Brent Toderian on lessons learned from Toronto, NYC, and London city planners →

“Is the word iconic appropriate in the context of city patterns?”

tags: Brent Toderian, London, Toronto, Vancouver, Vancouverism, Vanhattan | # | comment Jun. 14th, 2007

"Vancouverism is replacing Manhattanism as the maximum power setting of contemporary city building." →

Trevor Boddy reviews Dream City by Lance Berelowitz and Vancouver Walking by Meredith Quartermain.

tags: DTES, Manhattanism, Vancouver, Vancouverism, Vanhattan, via:gordonr | # | comment Dec. 20th, 2006

Trevor Boddy on "the urban design strategies used to foster socially mixed high density housing in Lower Manhattan and Vancouver →

Vancouver, requiring developers to build amenities for dwellers of the high-rises they build, has been the darling of urban design practitioners recently.

tags: Manhattan, NYC, NYCHDC, Vancouver, Vanhattan | # | comment Dec. 16th, 2005

Vancouver has two area codes, get used to it →

I have a 778 number, and always wondered about whether the area code was a turnoff (like in the Seinfeld episode with the new area code for Manhattan).

tags: 604, 778, Manhattan, NYC, Seinfeld, Vancouver, Vanhattan | # | comment Dec. 13th, 2005

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