park tag at the Vorg blog http://vorg.ca/tag/park All items Copyright 2001-2004 by their respective authors en-us http://vorg.ca/3104-Lantern-Park-Design-Entry Lantern Park - Beacon at Main and Terminal is an entry in the VPSN "Where's the Square?" design competition, created by myself and 2 friends. It's a re-design of the large park between Main St Skytrain station and Pacific Central station in Vancouver.

]]> http://vorg.ca/3104-Lantern-Park-Design-Entry dustin Vancouver BC parks design 2009-04-08T17:09:37-04:00 http://vorg.ca/3104-Lantern-Park-Design-Entry#replies http://vorg.ca/2695-Bloedel-Floral-Conservatory

The Bloedel Floral Conservatory sits under a tropical dome in Queen Elizabeth Park. It has some cool plants and birds to see, for the $5 admission fee. A cool discovery! See my photos.]]> http://vorg.ca/2695-Bloedel-Floral-Conservatory dustin Vancouver parks photography 2008-02-05T19:11:33-05:00 http://vorg.ca/2695-Bloedel-Floral-Conservatory#replies http://vorg.ca/2503-Google-Maps-misses-the-park Google Maps is missing a bunch of parks that the real-life Vancouver has. Comparing it to the map from the Vancouver Park Board, I made a list of parks missing from Google:

Harbour Green Park
Barclay Heritage Square
Marina Square
Cardero Park
Portal Park
Discovery Square
Cathedral Square
Victory Square
Wendy Poole Park
May & Lorne Brown Park
Helmcken Park
Creekside Park
Sutcliffe Park
Granville Loop Park
Willow Park
Choklit Park

Some of them are small parkettes, but many are not. Harbour Green, Creekside, and Sutcliffe are all quite large. Added up, that's a lot of local green space that Google isn't showing. I only compared the downtown and false creek areas, so there are surely more. Maybe Google is missing your local park?]]> http://vorg.ca/2503-Google-Maps-misses-the-park dustin Vancouver park maps Google 2007-07-24T02:32:20-04:00 http://vorg.ca/2503-Google-Maps-misses-the-park#replies http://vorg.ca/2423-Coal-Harbour-and-the-Runner

This photo of mine was just featured on Beyond Robson. Woot!]]> http://vorg.ca/2423-Coal-Harbour-and-the-Runner dustin Vancouver parks photography 2007-05-11T17:36:10-04:00 http://vorg.ca/2423-Coal-Harbour-and-the-Runner#replies http://vorg.ca/2422-Equestrian-Pedestrian

Seen in Stanley Park. I was on my bicycle, and I took the equestrian side.]]> http://vorg.ca/2422-Equestrian-Pedestrian dustin Vancouver parks photography 2007-05-11T03:43:01-04:00 http://vorg.ca/2422-Equestrian-Pedestrian#replies http://vorg.ca/2287-Broken-Trees-in-Stanley-Park






There are some more photos on my flickr.]]> http://vorg.ca/2287-Broken-Trees-in-Stanley-Park dustin Vancouver parks trees storm environment 2007-01-19T21:03:34-05:00 http://vorg.ca/2287-Broken-Trees-in-Stanley-Park#replies http://vorg.ca/1222-Renaming-Parc-Avenue-to-be-Robert-Bourassa-Avenue? CBC report).

I have mixed feelings about it. The street passes between Parc du Mont-Royal and Parc Jeanne-Mance, which together form Montreal's glorious downtown park. I spent a lot of time at the Parcs playing sports, at the Tam-Tams or just hanging out. The name Parc Avenue is a great tribute to the culture that takes place there. Plus there are tons of stores on Parc above and below the Parks that have taken up the name.

On the other hand, Parc currently becomes Rue Bleury below Sherbrooke. I've always thought it was stupid to have streets change their names part-way through. Also, I do think it would be cool to have the intersection of Robert Bourassa and Rene Levesque.

PS: This blog entry was originally about something else. However since it (randomly) got a comment from a concerned citizen along with some follow-ups, I have repurposed it to the issue.]]> http://vorg.ca/1222-Renaming-Parc-Avenue-to-be-Robert-Bourassa-Avenue? dustin Montreal streets parc park politics 2006-10-20T04:50:21-04:00 http://vorg.ca/1222-Renaming-Parc-Avenue-to-be-Robert-Bourassa-Avenue?#replies