A Century of Planning Vancouver: From Bartholomew to City Plan with Michael Kluckner

Recorded on March 3rd, 2020 at the University Women's Club at Hycroft in Vancouver, BC.



Over 90 years ago Vancouver hired Harland Bartholomew & Associates to create Vancouver’s first city-wide plan. Highly influential in the first half of the twentieth century, Bartholomew's firm emerged as leading American urban planners starting in 1911 and pioneered methodologies for plans in many cities. The plan provided an ambitious vision and specific concepts for the young city at the time when Vancouver amalgamated with two neighbouring municipalities to become the modern City of Vancouver, with automobile-oriented transportation demands and planning for industrial growth as priority considerations. Author Michael Kluckner explored what was implemented, what worked and what did not, and tracked more recent changes in legislation and development, such as the vision for False Creek, condominium living and the push for compact communities in both the city and the region.