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How Metropolitan Vancouver Is Reorganizing Suburban Growth Around Transit

October 26, 2017 By Jim Chappell

Residential Tower at the SkyTrain station
Surrey City Center. Residential Tower at the SkyTrain station

Vancouver B.C. Metropolitan Core is famous among urbanists for what is now called the “Vancouver Style,” neighborhoods of point towers of 40 stories or more, with a planned tower separation to preserve public views and maximize privacy. The towers have small floor plates set on top of a street wall podium lined with three-story townhouses, or retail storefronts with offices above. There is landscaping on top of the podium and parking underground. Vancouverites have embraced density and walkability in the urban core, the envy of many of us from stateside. How Metropolitan Vancouver Is Reorganizing Suburban Growth Around Transit

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning, San Francisco Bay Area, Transportation Tagged With: British Columbia, Burnaby, density, Metro Vancouver, SkyTrain, Surrey, Translink, Vancouver

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