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urban planners. "Maybe it goes back to when
they tore down my tree house to build
Oakridge."

The exhibition was not all downtrodden.
There were a few designs for hope. One in
particular, Exhibit Number 3, depicted a
symbolic Haida Thunderbird as the basis for
laying down streets and buildings. This
theoretical urban plan makes culture the basis
for planning. It challenges the early 19th

Vancouver city planner Ray Spaxman called
the exhibit "12 Rorschach tests", suggesting
that viewers would see in the designs reflections
of their own personalities. His comments were
made during a panel discussion on an exhibition
of a dozen design propositions for Vancouver's
future, on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery to
November 29.

Called "Vancouver ReVisions," the
exhibition was undertaken by 12 teams of urban

garden. This plan proposes to make a large
gash in the middle of the park and a controlled
garden-like setting be built upon it; therefore,
the proposed garden would ruin the pristine
forest we value today. Exhibit Number 6
displays a scenario of squalor, a ghetto of
sampans on Burrard Inlet. Finally, Exhibit
Numbers 9 and 12 appear to segregate the West
and East sides of Vancouver even further by
demarcating them with-a built wall. These two

designers, architects and artists who hoped to
provoke public discussion about the city's
future and its urban issues.

Besides the comments made by Spaxman,
architects George Baird and Richard Henriquez
and artist Jeff Wall discussed the urban
implications of designing future visions for the
city to an audience of about 200.

Wall made a distinction that he was neither
an architect nor urban planner, but just an
“ordinary citizen" from Vancouver. As a
citizen, then, he said, he was quite fearful of

century urban grid pattern, as we know the city
today, and speculates that in the future the city
would be planned on a diversity of cultural
expression. Could tHe origins of this evolved
cultural plan be from our Chinatowns, Little
Italy's, Japantowns, or Little India's? The
possibilities of this plan are quite intriguing.
There were, however, a few design
propositions that would cause some friction, if
not downright outrage. Exhibit Number 1
suggests that 100 years from now, Stanley Park
would be urbanized and transformed into a

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plans reek of medieval town planning when ‘city
walls were built to keep out invaders and
undesirables. Moreover, the thought that this
scenario can even be entertained as a possible
design vision for Vancouver's future is scary
and thought-provoking.

The exhibition, then, as one colorful
member of the audience put it "...represents the
fantasy of the rulers," and the utopian scheming
of the architects and urban planners has
neglected to consider the actual people who
would inhabit their dreams.

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particular, Exhibit Number 3, depicted a
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laying down streets and bulldings. This
theoretical urban plan makes culture the basis
for planning. It challenges the early 19th
century urban grid pattern, as we know the city
today, and speculates that in the future the city
would be planned on a diversity of cultural
expression: Could tile origins of this evolved
‘cultural plan be from our Chinatowns, Little
Ttaly's; Japantowns, or Litte India's?” The
posiibitites of this plan are quite Intriguing.

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propositions that would cause some friction, If
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forest we valve today.” Exhibit Number 6
displays a seenaro of squalor, a ghetto
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Numbers 9 and 12 appear to segregate the West
and East sides of Vancouver even further by
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plans reek of medieval town planning when ‘ity
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member of the audience put it "represents the
Fantasy of the rulers" and the wiopian scheming
of the architects and urban planners has
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Kevin Louis