Destination: Vancouver

Salon has a new piece on Vancouver, part of a series they're running called “The Literary Guide to the World”:

“Vancouver is today among the select handful of world centers — think Geneva or Sydney — recognized solely by its livability: a happy accident of freeway-forbidding geography, Canadian social engineering and the best lessons of urban development.”

I just heard recently that the downtown neighbourhood of Yaletown is second only to Manhattan in residential density in North America.