Recently took a bunch of shots of the developments in City Centre. Watch the slideshow below!
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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I’ve just realized the problem with this area. Well, actually there are several. But look at the large spaces around the towers. It’s quite bizarre and will not create the vibrant street life they want. The towers ought to be of varying size, side by side, on podiums containing mixed retail, restaurants, bars, services and town houses on the bottom.
I know the City of Surrey is trying to incorporate certain principles of new urbanism into their planning motifs. And the area is a lot better than what it was like 15 years ago. But what they’ve done instead seems to remind me of Le Corbusier’s horrible “Ville Radieuse.” So when they say they want to create a “second downtown” in Metro Vancouver, I kind of have to wince. While Downtown Vancouver is a bit corny, in so far as the financial district and the entertainment districts are jokes compared to cities of comprable size, other neighbourhoods within it like Yaletown, the West End, Gastown, and “Downtown South” do have a lot of vitality in themselves.