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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Well I prefer parks and public space , not houses with tiny waterfront areas sandwiched in here and there
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Are you sure you know anything about Vancouver's public downtown peninsula waterfront?
Vancouver's public waterfront is miles and miles and miles of uninterrupted public waterfront, built along a continuous stone seawall (over a century old in some places) and consists of numerous major public spaces, including parks, beaches, swimming pools, restaurants, museums, tourist attractions, a major public market, a massive downtown cruise ship terminal, marinas and public water taxi docks, etc. Its largest park, Stanley Park, is bigger than New York City's Central park and consists of public beaches, swimming pools, restaurants and pubs, cricket pitches, sports fields, rowing and lawn bowling clubs, golf course, train ride, outdoor concert bowl, major aquarium and marine biology institution, lakes and lagoons, etc.
In addition to not being cleaved off from the downtown core by a freeway, Vancouver's public waterfront benefits by circumnavigating a downtown which sits on a natural peninsula, which means the public waterfront starts in the heart of downtown and, ten miles later, ends right back in the heart of downtown.
Here is some 4k raw footage of someone walking around just a portion of Vancouver's public waterfront on a Sunday morning. The video neither starts at the beginning of Vancouver's public waterfront nor finishes anywhere near its end.
Lastly, since its recorded in the morning, the sea is at low tide in this video. At high tide, in the afternoon and evening, the sea laps right against the stone seawall and its quite the sight:
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