It’s the type of modern mix of green space, glass towers and ocean people associate with Vancouverism.
Category Archives: Downtown
#32: Creekside Park
Go to Creekside, and you’ll understand a little bit why this city entrances — and why this exact spot was designed as one of its main selling points.
#39: Harbour Green Park
If Harbour Green feels like a weird whiplash of things in a single park, well, Vancouver is a weird whiplash of a city.
#42: CRAB Park
The most confusing thing about CRAB park are the pictures of crabs in the spay park.
#45: Andy Livingstone Park
There’s an uneasy tension in a park that caters both to families with school children, but also some of the most marginalized folks in society.
#61: Sun Yat-Sen Garden
What we can say is Sun Yat-Sen Garden is an incredibly peaceful place to be.
#65: Coopers’ Park
You probably know it more as “that quirky park under Cambie Street Bridge”, but Coopers’ — named for the barrel-making industry that flourished in this area in early Vancouver — has more than just a fun backstory.
#68: Emery Barnes Park
It’s a slightly above-average generic downtown park, the sort you would fully expect to see in any large metropolis
#89: Coal Harbour Park
But while it’s fair to say the 1990s dreams for the neighbourhood didn’t pan out, the park right in the middle — funded through one of those newfangled development contributions — hit the mark.
#97: George Wainborn Park
It’s not that George Wainborn is bad. It’s just a little underdeveloped for what should be a signature waterfront park across from Granville Island.