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CanU 2020
Virtual Tour - Vancouver

Each year, the CanU host city offers a number of tours to give attendees an on-the-ground experience of the evolving urban environment.  This year, with the help of Vancouver videographer & CBC contributor, Uytae Lee, you have the chance to ‘walk’ Vancouver with four local hosts.

The Legacy Tours  

Guides

Larry Beasley

Downtown South


Scot Hein

Olympic Village

Neighbourhood

Sketches

Guides

Alicia Medina

Mount Pleasant

Chris Cheung

Chinatown

The Legacy Tours

These tours showcase two of the communities that have been central to Vancouver’s reputation for livability. Downtown South and the Olympic Village are both master-planned communities that transformed industrial waterfront properties on False Creek. Both are the result of effective collaboration between the City and the design and development community. 

Downtown South 

 

Join Larry Beasley as he guides a walk through the Downtown South neighbourhood - the high density mixed use neighbourhood that took earlier successes of Vancouver’s innovative South False Creek community to a new level of urban living. A resident himself, Beasley offers both a professional and personal perspective of the many attributes and some of the missed opportunities in this now mature neighbourhood.

The Legacy Tours: Downtown South
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Olympic Village

 

Walk the Olympic Village with Scot Hein, the former Senior Urban Designer at the City of Vancouver who played a pivotal role in the visioning, design and delivery of this unique neighbourhood.  Listen in as he describes the people and processes that helped to realize this community. And see the many urban design and sustainability strategies that were introduced to create this LEED Platinum Development. 

The Legacy Tours: Olympic Village
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Neighbourhood Sketches

This year CanU asks two young urbanism voices to share personal observations on Vancouver neighbourhoods with which they have a special bond.

Mount Pleasant

 

Take a stroll with Alicia Medina,
architect & entrepreneur, as she shares her insights on an inner-city industrial area rapidly & organically transforming into a unique new district.  Living and working in this neighbourhood, Medina offers a close-up of the eclectic uses, original housing stock and contemporary businesses being woven into the industrial fabric.

Neighbourhood Sketches: Mount Pleasant
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