David Tenniswood: Sea to Sky
via youtube.com
Timelapse of clouds over Vancouver.
Time: 2020. Place: Mount Pleasant.
The business streets look mostly the same, but there’s a different atmosphere, literally, because the air is cleaner. The broad sidewalks accommodate tables spilling out from restaurants in the summer. A street car runs down Main. Bicyclists still prefer bikeways over the main roads, but there are more of them on the main roads because there is more room and less exhaust to breathe. Apparently, the less people drive, the less they want to drive, because people are increasingly choosing active and public transportation over getting in their cars. Nearly a quarter of the cars are electric and car share lots provide a convenient solution for trips with big loads. Ski and recreation buses make regular morning and evening trips so it's easy to get to and from the mountains.
A scenario of Vancouver in 2020 with the Greenest City goals in place, by planners Lindsay Cole and Amanda Mitchell, and Vancouver Observer writer Carrie Saxifrage.
Fantastic to see Vancouver planners creating tangible future visions -- scenarios like this can be excellent communication tools in a way that lists of targets and goals cannot. I would love to see more future scenarios for the many slices of Vancouver beyond Mt. Pleasant-dwelling composting woodworkers. Keep them coming!
The Hotel Vancouver closed its famed Panorama Roof in 1996. The Blue Horizon’s Top of the Horizon was converted to banquet rooms in 1985. The Sylvia Hotel closed its top-floor restaurant in 1967, after decades of inviting customers to “dine in the sky” above English Bay.
Great history in the Vancouver Sun of swanky top floor dining & dancing establishments that have been lost to time.
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