PARTING SHOT
Bird’s-Eye View
Vancouver wins urban-planning awards for designing its core as a place
where people can live, work and play; but the leafy streets and numerous green spaces are only part of the story. The city’s maritime setting, a
strategic gateway to Canada’s Pacific Rim trading partners, is its raison
d’être. Saltwater False Creek (lower left), in reality an inlet, defines the
western edge of the downtown peninsula and connects to English Bay,
where freighters await unloading in the Port of Vancouver. In the distance
(top right), the mountainous shore of West Vancouver curves around into
Howe Sound.
PHOTO: KK LAW, ON A HARBOUR AIR FLIGHT
The sea around us shapes the city as much as
the land beneath our feet by louise phillips