The 'Cult of Vancouver' Spreads To San Francisco City-Builders
25 February 2004 - 7:00am
Are high-density, socially-mixed communities of tall, skinny towers on townhouse bases always the way to go?
Vancouver-style high-rise downtown residential districts are being touted world-wide as a "bold new idea" for sustainable development. When "a few blocks of Vancouver’s Downtown South, [are] tractor-beamed to a perch in the shadow of the Transamerica Pyramid," the results sometimes get lost in translation.
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ArchNewsNow.com, February 24, 2004
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