Ad - Wednesday, May 9, 1984 - North Shore News Hate literature surfaces in WV From page A1 Vancouver literature, he also found a smaller pamphlet, complete with pictures and cartoons, on the pulpit at a church in recently. Vancouver habitable. The problem, it seems, is that the city’s core isn’t really a fun place to be. Oh sure, there’s Stanley Park, the planetarium and the beaches This particular architect, Gerald Hamilton, talked wistfully of revitalizing twice- dead Gastown, of somehow saving Granville Mall from itself, and then, of course, ahem, there was the question of Davie Street and environs. We all know about the supernaturally fabulous-to- the-thousandth-degree hyper- kinetic setting, and | know the skyline of Vancouver still draws my heartstrings taut if 1 happen to be travelling along the Upper Levels or down Lonsdale. The play of hght on the glass towers and the ashtray of the Sears Building and the yolkiess fried egg of the Stadium dome... Ah yes But like the = architect said, what do you really do if you happen to be on foot amid the scintillating urbani ty of wall? Behind the kafufflle at Ex. po, of course, there looms the $3 billon BC) Place pro ject, perhaps the most am bitious urban development scheme in the works in North America Thais as what people lke ar chitect Hamilton are Coun ting on to head oft the decay of the unner city The idea over a couple of decades. is to create a populous vanes around the doglep of balse Creek an upban village whose natives will spend focally harbour Vancouver their money Tticte 8s the hey And thre trony la the past “4 cra ol neatly ctfortless global travel, nobody wants to leave them hibach) Oho they deo they want to be within pop tag distance of tome Look at the risks tf your po downtown Breathalyzers Tow trucks blookems Odne way StICeIsS A uderpround parking bots Ast as deo writerwee Nan comevet ous only Mall toassdt Dh southeastern quadihant ois oa No Mans Land left over from the lndasteral Revolo Cron bonday AN otter ante tree cof tM city So westhere tahoe va ports ser carripola ated that there ccally aseot any tame for them the need of baarviboee ctuekls | feomeedites anil Vootiworks om the Gdhownbowsn “LT wouldn’t doubt that the whole thing is being geared towards the Pope’s visit. But the whole thing is so ridiculous. It’s so com- pletely overblown that it defeats its purpose,’’ said Scott. ‘‘If it is to defame the Pope and the Church, its just too ridiculous to believe.”’ West Vancouver Police report they have had several complaints from residents about the hate literature, however, they have been unable to track down the persons responsible for spreading the pamphlets. Strictly personal by Bob Hunter was listening to an architect talking about ways and means to make downtown Vancouver peninsula is muted. somewhat Accordingly, the skyline has a chance to emulate the manufacturing, financial and communications centres of Hong Kong and Singapore, and if the B.C. Place plan- ners have their way, Van- couver will become a near- island state, almost a for- tress, awesome to behold. But I wonder if tht's going to really tempt us suburban types back into the centre? 1 like driving into Van- couver, so long as I can avoid rush hour traffic. Nice view. And it’s an okay place to do business, although, if you're busy making a buck, you don’t have time to gawk at the scenery or the new buildings all that much. Once I'm downtown, it’s amazing how easily I can be tricked into thinking I'm tn Los Angeles or Toronto or even Regina. Architectural styles may vary from raked facades to the sheer bronze look and there may be kinks, ners may dream of creating cultural and consumer onented magnets to lure back the suburban nomads, but | think teas too late The best they can hope for is to re-make the downtown into a suburb on its own. ‘And let it do its own thing. curves, angled walls and cap- ped roofs, but nowadays a ‘*normal’”’ city is ecletic to the point of insanity, n'est-ce pas? That’s why the suburbs are thriving and will continue to thrive. They can be as spectacular- ly diverse, as weird, as gung- ho futuristic as they want, too. If anything, suburbs have evolved into. entire civilizations in their own right, floating alongside the glittering hulks of the old downtowns in a mood of magnificent indifference to the fate — or temptations— of the big-city lights. If it’s the imitation English pubs you want, take-out Vietnamese food, theme restaurants with or withou ferns, aerobics sweatshops, Space Age shopping malls crossed with ancient Egyp tian temples, multiple-choice theatres, instant hai stylists, or the thrill of stainless steel monuments to the architec tural styles of Groptus and Le Corbusier, why buck the traffic? It can all be had outside peninsular Vancouver Architects and city plan SMOKING N. Van District continues ban NORTH VANCOUVER District Council has decided to continue its ban on smoking in the council chambers, despite the im- passioned plea made recently by local resident Peter Powell. 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