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Greater Vancouver regional town centres policy in comparative perspective Perkins, Ralph A.

Abstract

Suburban centres policies in Greater Vancouver, metropolitan Melbourne, and Bellevue, Washington are examined to derive general lessons toward the improvement of this type of policy. It is found that two attempts to pursue the development of a regional system of suburban centres have been unsuccessful, while a municipally-based policy has achieved some success in terms of the physical design of a suburban downtown. Patterns of private sector development are found to have been very little affected by any of the case study policies. Further, several assumptions concerning the linkages between public transit and land use in suburban centres are found to require further careful examination before they should be used as a basis for future policy development.

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Title	Greater Vancouver regional town centres policy in comparative perspective
Creator	Perkins, Ralph A.
Publisher	University of British Columbia
Date Issued	1992
Description	Suburban centres policies in Greater Vancouver, metropolitan Melbourne, and Bellevue, Washington are examined to derive general lessons toward the improvement of this type of policy. It is found that two attempts to pursue the development of a regional system of suburban centres have been unsuccessful, while a municipally-based policy has achieved some success in terms of the physical design of a suburban downtown. Patterns of private sector development are found to have been very little affected by any of the case study policies. Further, several assumptions concerning the linkages between public transit and land use in suburban centres are found to require further careful examination before they should be used as a basis for future policy development.
Extent	5982975 bytes
Geographic Location	Bellevue (Wash.); Greater Vancouver (B.C.); Melbourne (Vic.)
Genre	Thesis/Dissertation
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date Available	2009-01-09
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
DOI	10.14288/1.0086910
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3484
Degree	Master of Arts in Planning - MA (Plan)
Program	Planning
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Degree Grantor	University of British Columbia
Graduation Date	1992-11
Campus	UBCV
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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