Vanhattan

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

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?

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

"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.

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

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.

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Vancouver has two area codes, get used to it →

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).

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