ABSTRACT
In Vancouver, Canada, the cultural transformations of the 1960s were taken seriously and the values and sensibilities of those socially and ecologically aware became manifest in the design of a number of neighbourhoods. Twenty years ago a vision for cities and suburbs only now highlighted by Duany et al, were not only proposed, but studied and implemented. Along False Creek on the margin of downtown Vancouver, and at Champlain Heights eight miles further to the southeast, two new neighbourhoods Were designed and constructed drawing upon both the ideas of the day and an interactive consultative public process. These projects are deemed to be suceesses. In the 1970s several regional town centres were designated in the suburbs outside vancouver city, however their implementation was left to the private sector. Some are now quite urban in character but others have the negative attributes of an 'Edge City'. These initiatives are interesting in their own right, but they also provide models of planning and implementation that may used to meet the challenges in other cities.
