"At high tide the low land at [RaymurJ Avenue became a passage for native canoes through to Burrard Inlet."
John Atkin, Strathcona: Vancouver's First Neighbourhood. (1994, p.7).
We see participants in the new econorny walking to work; working downstairs; around the corner; clown the block or across the canal. Their life choices look for proximity of work, home, and services in bustling, vibrant, environmentally balanced, and socially rewarding high quality places. In the Urban Villages the presence of water as a floor plain enhances the aesthetic experience of place; making possible new modes of transportation including small crafts and water buses.
In the Urban Villages human scale is the form-giving and the character-setting yardstick for good urbanism. These are mixed-use environments where a full range of activities happen side-by-side. There is no segregation by zoning. Activities are self-selecting, tamed and made compatible by the urban setting. College campuses, transportation hubs, and large scale retail are held in districts at the Urban Village edge. The railways recede and VIA Rail passenger operations fall back to a new, combined station at VCC-Clark creating a regional-local rail hub. Old buildings anchor public open spaces and village squares. As shown by the Pedestrian Shed analysis on the plan, the Urban Villages re-connect to the historic neighbourhoods of Main Street, Mount Pleasant and Strathcona
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