WHAT DO YOU FORESEE IN 2085
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 06:56 PM
#2
Posted 04 February 2007 - 07:12 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 07:18 PM
#4
Posted 04 February 2007 - 07:58 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#5
Posted 04 February 2007 - 08:39 PM
Victoria's urban design is influenced by three major factors.... limited room for outward expansion due to natural boundaries (the ocean and the Malahat), factional neighbourhood politics, and a trend towards "neo-traditional urban planning" and "sustainable urban planning" - two post-industrial concepts in the rudimentary western feng shui that was popular around the turn of the millenium. As a result of these three factors Victoria can be best described as a collection of highly differentiated urban villages, each only a few blocks in diametre, each with their own tiny suburban hinterland, village centre, demographic, and cultural makeup.
Although trade is vigorous between these centres, the degree of insularity is such that in the 2080s the noted linguistic anthropologist Lin Yee, who specialises in the study of dying languages noted that in Victoria, each village node had developped a distinct dialect. In fact, the Yuppy slang of Victoria-West was barely comprensible a few blocks away in The Harris Green Projects slum, or even to the chinglish spoken beyond the Ye Old Tweed Curtain.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 09:17 PM
Densely populated from the chichi suburb of Sooke to the more working class northern neighbourhood of Duncan, It surpassed Vancouver in size in the 2060's as Vancouver's relevance dwindled with the opening of the northern Port of Prince Rupert.
The so called water wars of the 2040's ended with the breakdown of most large nation states including the US, China and Canada into smaller states. As an island state, Vancouver Island became considered a safe place to keep wealth, and as a water rich nation, it boomed in much the same way as Dubai did at the start of the century.
Victoria's wealth has attracted people from all over the world, and it's liberal immigration policy coupled with a zealous deportation policy has resulted in VI being accused of causing a brain drain from the dry nations. Although true, it has resulted in Victoria becoming the home of three world class Universities; Malahat, Uvic and Langford.
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 09:35 PM
The Victoria and Duncan subway systems were finally linked underground with the completion of the Malahat/Cowichan tunnel. Excavated by nanobots over the course of twenty years, the Metro extension made it possible to travel from Victoria Central to Downtown Nanaimo in twenty minutes.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 09:44 PM
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 09:48 PM
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:wink:
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Posted 04 February 2007 - 09:50 PM
#11
Posted 05 February 2007 - 07:51 AM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Posted 05 February 2007 - 08:35 AM
#13
Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:03 AM
The exasperated owner of the lot wonders if he'll ever be able to do anything with the property now that nobody drives cars anymore. This is his eighth redevelopment proposal.
JBNEA claims the parking lot is heritage.
#14
Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:22 AM
Know it all.
Citified.ca is Victoria's most comprehensive research resource for new-build homes and commercial spaces.
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Posted 05 February 2007 - 08:34 PM
#16
Posted 05 February 2007 - 09:22 PM
"A cynic is one who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing"
Ms B.. I agree.. to paraphrase.. lets live for now but think long term...
#17
Posted 05 February 2007 - 09:24 PM
^I thought that you were expressing a linguistic name shift Smile You know Swart's Bay --> Swartz Bay
yeah! thats what I was doing!
:smt002
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#18
Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:41 AM
if only we had listened....
#19
Posted 06 February 2007 - 08:42 AM
Come my brothers and sisters... we have a glorious future to plan!
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#20
Posted 06 February 2007 - 11:55 AM
Are those some of my neighbours from St. Ann's...?
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