land the city owns at Smithe and Richards is no longer to be used as a parking lot but as a small park instead
traffic lights on Richards are on the right in the picture below; low-rise heritage buildings on far side of Smithe
at left: rear view of part of podium of tower-podium on Homer and Smithe (!m) by Bing Thom Architects (c1990)
KeepIng pace with growth in Vancouver’s Downtown South this hard-working #urbanpark will be the outdoor living room for over 27,000 people living and working within 5 min walk of this new park https://t.co/YfAJHdPyni
— Dave Hutch (@dave_hutch) December 30, 2019
number of parks in Vancouver (228) by category, with links to images of examples:
the unnamed 0.8-acre (0.3-hectare) park for 2020 – subject of this post – is one more urban plaza
- destination: five, large, larger than 20 hectares, 44 percent of park system (Stanley Park) (!m) (!i)
- community: 101, medium, averaging 6.4 hectares, 22 percent of park system (John Hendry Park – aka Trout Lake – at 3300 Victoria) (!m) (!i)
- neighbourhood: 50, medium, averaging 2.6 hectares, 31 percent of park system (Maple Grove Park at 6875 Yew) (!m) (!i)
- local: 63, small, averaging 0.54 hectares, two percent of park system (Foster Park on Foster Avenue at Aberdeen) (!m)
- urban plazas: nine, small, averaging 0.4 hectares, less than one percent of park system (Pioneer Place – aka Pigeon Park – at 399 Carrall) (!m) (!i)
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the unnamed 0.8-acre (0.3-hectare) park for 2020 – subject of this post – is one more urban plaza
notes and links
from a 2019-12-31 email to the city:
The Vancouver Sun reports the proposed park as being
1.9 acres. Your summary page says
0.8 acres. Do you mean 0.8 hectares?