Vancouver breaks all the supposed rules of North American urbanism. In breaking them -while simultaneously building equity, amenity, and livability- Vancouver may now be writing a new rulebook of city-making for the 21st century. The Vancouver that is now generating such interest amongst planners and architects was shaped by a complex interaction of geography, politics, principles, ideas, and contingency, yet out of its particular history may come some fresh notions that might apply elsew../MORE

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Vancouver breaks all the supposed rules of North American urbanism. In breaking them -while simultaneously building equity, amenity, and livability- Vancouver may now be writing a new rulebook of city-making for the 21st century. The Vancouver that is now generating such interest amongst planners and architects was shaped by a complex interaction of geography, politics, principles, ideas, and contingency, yet out of its particular history may come some fresh notions that might apply elsewhere. "Vancouverism" has now become a term in the literature of city planning, a cousin to that older descriptor of the hyper-dense city "Manhattanism"