Incredible map, I've never seen this before and I grew up here.
Zoning decides so much of the vibe of a city/neighbourhood. Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in.
Having lived in 6 other cities, other things Vancouver does well that aren't obvious on this map:
- Narrow streets (avoids traffic in side streets)
- No highways in the city (loud, dangerous, take up lots of space)
- Grass on both sides of sidewalk and trees on every street.
- Extremely high park density.
- Protected bike lanes everywhere.
- Side streets with random dead ends.
- Commercial streets every ~4-6 blocks that allow more traffic + bus routes.
- Rectangle structured blocks with numbers 1 direction and names the other.
Zoning decides so much of the vibe of a city/neighbourhood. Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in.
Having lived in 6 other cities, other things Vancouver does well that aren't obvious on this map:
- Narrow streets (avoids traffic in side streets)
- No highways in the city (loud, dangerous, take up lots of space)
- Grass on both sides of sidewalk and trees on every street.
- Extremely high park density.
- Protected bike lanes everywhere.
- Side streets with random dead ends.
- Commercial streets every ~4-6 blocks that allow more traffic + bus routes.
- Rectangle structured blocks with numbers 1 direction and names the other.