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A World Model For Urban Living

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Daniel Naundorf
7 July 2003 - 12:00pm

Vancouver, the city awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a world model for urban design and quality of life. it is envied for its ability to develop attractive high-density downtown residential neighborhoods.

Vancouver takes a "co-operative planning approach" that seeks consensus between staff, politicians, developers and citizens, and employs a discretionary regulatory framework that emphasizes guidelines and incentives over regulations.

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Source: The Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 2003
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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