Pacific and Drake Vancouver IR 02 May 08 2010_DSC1974

Pacific and Drake Vancouver IR 02 May 08 2010_DSC1974, originally uploaded by VancouverDoug.

A hard-fought-for victory for the city of Vancouver, thanks to decades of careful but firm city planning, is that we don't have a big, ugly 10 lane mega-highway cutting through the center of the city. As a result the downtown core has grown into one with a residential rather than a business focus. Very much a forest of glass and steel growing alongside a forest of 1 to 100 year old trees. Thus the reason Vancouver’s downtown core, from more than one angle looks like a model 21st century city.