Urban Affairs * Canada - City Embraces Density, and Congestion
To metro Atlantans, congestion is a dirty word. "Congestion is our friend. Density is good"
Vancouver, British Columbia -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta,GA,USA)/Cox News Service, by Maria Saporta -May 27, 2007: -- But when a delegation of 117 regional leaders recently visited this Canadian city, they were introduced to a whole new concept... "Congestion is our friend," said Larry Beasley, former city planning director for Vancouver, who has been recognized worldwide as helping create a new urban model. "Density is good"... In the 1970s, Vancouver residents waged a 10-year battle to keep freeways from its urban core. They successfully defeated a plan that would have run a highway through its Chinatown and run along its downtown waterfront... Now a traffic light at the edge of city limits signals that the interstate from Tijuana to Canada has come to a stop and is now a city street..."We are the only North American city of any significance without an interstate at its core," said Gordon Price, an urban affairs professor at Simon Fraser University, who used to serve on Vancouver's City Council.
Instead of the city drying up economically and becoming inaccessible and unlivable, downtown Vancouver has become one of the most thriving urban areas in North America...
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