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No Fun City

Killoh, Rachel

Vancouver has developed a branding over the years, as “No Fun City", with distinct factors of outdated regulations, expensive rent and exclusive attitudes surrounding its night scene. With current existential threats to nightlife, this reputation for the third largest Canadian city is more relevant now than ever before. Through historical and personal analysis, this proposal investigates the many facets that compose the way in which Vancouver nightlife experiences have been designed and cultivated over time. Specifically, places of alternative D.I.Y. venues have come to be misunderstood as illegal liabilities to the city, while a breadth of subcultures and diversity exists within. While to some controversial, these authentic spaces of gather are pivotal to Vancouver’s culture and arguably all night time economies. In a post-covid world, where boundaries and definitions of social drinking space have disseminated and new alcohol regulations have been put in place, it begs the question how can we look to it’s wild nightlife history to better connect post-adolescence communities? How might this inform a new, authentic architectural language unique to Vancouver? This thesis investigates the current complexities surrounding Vancouver’s nightlife by re-imagining a new typology as incubation space for creative post-adolescents.

Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0417464

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/