City Conversations: Is Vancouver a Tight-Ass City?

That question was irreverently asked by a grandmotherly-type at a City Conversation earlier this year. After the laughter died, the question remains: is Vancouver over-regulated? Does a neighbourhood festival require a single fenced-off street with controlled-entry beer gardens?

Why do we need fences around sidewalk tables? Even our landscape can be rigid. Why are clipped lawns and view-blocking rows of trimmed cedar hedges dominant in one of the world’s richest growing climates?

Please join Lance Berelowitz, planner, urban designer, and writer on urban issues; and Daniel Roehr, Landscape Architect and Associate Professor at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, for a provocative challenge to our city’s culture, look and feel, and the costs to its vitality and livability.

Then it’s your turn to join the conversation, to question, observe, offer your opinions. Please feel free to bring your lunch.

Free event.
Thursday, November 6
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings St.
Room 1600