The visionary regional planning tradition and the Greater Vancouver region
Subject
Abstract
Since 1987, when the Brundtland Commission published its
famous report, Our Common Future, discussions of urban and
regional planning have tended to be strongly influenced by
notions of 'sustainable development. ' This certainly is a welcome
occurrence, but it is often forgotten that there is a far older
tradition of visionary regional planning that anticipated many of
the ideas of 'sustainable development.' While there is insufficient
space here to treat their ideas in depth, a brief summary is offered
in chronological order. In order to make the discussion more
concrete, certain of these ideas are applied to the current situation
in the Greater Vancouver region.