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False Creek's Urban Experiment Seeks a Second Act

Clock ticking for a Trudeau-era attempt at a visionary utopia in Vancouver.

David P Ball 31 Dec 2013Tyee Solutions Society

David P. Ball reports on affordable housing for The Tyee Solutions Society.

This series was produced by Tyee Solutions Society in collaboration with Tides Canada Initiatives Society. This series was made possible through the support of the Real Estate Foundation, Vancity, and BC Non-Profit Housing Association. Support for this project does not necessarily imply Vancity's endorsement of the findings or contents of this report. TSS funders and Tides Canada Initiatives neither influence nor endorse the particular content of TSS' reporting. Other publications wishing to publish this story or other Tyee Solutions Society-produced articles, please see this website for contacts and information.
Urban oasis, singularly successful planned community, and Seventies-era exercise in social engineering, False Creek South is home to 6,000 Vancouverites with an uncertain future. Click to watch David P. Ball's video report. 

Sky-high rents and housing prices are among Vancouver's most pressing and persistent challenges. The answer, experts and developers say, is more "density" -- packing more people into every square kilometre of Vancouver.

Proposals to "densify" several areas of the city boiled over this year into neighbourhood rebellions and even tense picket lines.

Yet overlooked in the sparring are 6,000 Vancouverites quietly living a "densified" life in a community created decades ago in a moment of unprecedented, and unrepeated, alignment of municipal, provincial and federal urban visions.

False Creek South was created 40 years ago on city-owned land in the belief that mixed-income, green and walkable neighbourhoods could foster a real downtown community in the Age of Suburbs. But now city leases and federal funding that made the project possible are ticking down to their end-dates.

Beginning with today's special video report and continuing with three reports over coming days, Tyee Solutions Society housing reporter David P. Ball explores one of the country's most audacious, if now long-forgotten, experiments in social and urban engineering -- and finds lots to appreciate, and plenty to question, in the new millennium.

Tomorrow: How a "different time" produced a radical experiment in urban living. [Tyee]

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