As we continue to map the city of Vancouver, the neighbourhood of False Creek South comes into view. Heralded for its progressive approach to urban design, False Creek South demonstrates the core principles of the city livable movement. In the early 1970’s The Electors Action Movement (TEAM) championed a turn towards human-scale urbanism that prioritized aesthetics and livability. But fifty years later Vancouver has transitioned from being a beacon of livability to a city that commentators have recently referred to as “impossibly unaffordable”. In the midst of Vancouver’s embrace of bad urbanism, the False Creek South neighbourhood has come under threat. In episode three we sit down with Colleen Hardwick to discuss this and more.
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Further reading:
Patrick Condon, Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/18/City-False-Promises-False-Creek-South/
City Hall Watch: https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/palmquist-false-promises-false-creek/
David Ley: Liberal Ideology and the Postindustrial City: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2562952
