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Shaping Vancouver 2019: What's the Use of Heritage? Conversation #1: Reshaping Local Places

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May 21
2019
Shaping Vancouver 2019: What's the Use of Heritage? Conversation #1: Reshaping Local Places Heritage Vancouver Society May 21, 2019 : 7:00 pm to May 22, 2019 : 8:45 pm

Under many different names, including “revitalization”and “regeneration”, heritage is and can be used to craft a positive place image, develop local economic sectors, create a neighbourhood centre for culture, and improve upon the animation of local areas. This change can be compelling, but also has its challenges.

This process is especially relevant and timely in the False Creek Flats, Chinatown, and Punjabi Market areas of Vancouver. Under the False Creek Flats Plan approved in 2017, the approach is to make the area a thriving and innovative economic zone which “builds off of existing character… by leveraging key character assets, histories and economic anchors”. Chinatown is looking towards a process where a heritage informed by experiential authenticity, culture and ordinary daily life forms the basis for social and economic revitalization. Punjabi Market desires a future where the district is a place filled with Punjabi experiences for people to enjoy.

In this first talk, we look at how heritage can be used to reshape these places in the city.

Contact: 
Ben Geisberg
Address 
149 West Hastings
Vancouver, BC V6B1H4
Canada
Click to view background photo & credits
Project: Telus Atrium Garden
Landscape Architect / Firm: Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture Inc in collaboration with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Photo Credit: Brett Hitchins