MOTORDOM

Motordom Auto-Dependent Urban Form

Kamloops

Westbank

Courtenay

Cranbrook

Kelowna

Kelowna Form follows parking

Big and simple
Flat and square
Low-density and single-use
Auto-oriented
Design for Motordom

1942 First edition Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Handbook. Dedicated to the “ efficient, free and rapid flow of traffic .”

The City redesigned to accommodate the car. The Urban Region designed for the car . The Age of Motordom

Motordom overdid it.
It drove out choice. . Leaving us vulnerable.

Where is there a good example of an urban region that has successfully dealt with traffic congestion by building more roads and bridges? A place that we should model ourselves after?

Recipe for Suburbia
Cheap, secure energy
Abundant, serviced land
Continuous flow of safe water
Low-cost, insured money
Technologies to make it all work

Cheap, secure energy

Crude Oil in 2008 Dollars 1861 2006

Peak Oil

Sufficient density
Mix and proximty
Good design
Transportation Choice
Formula for Successful Urbanity (Dn + Mx / Pr) x Ds = TC Recipe for Urbanity

Sufficient density
Mix and proximty
Good design
Transportation Choice
Formula for Successful Urbanity Recipe for Urbanity

Five Practical Choices
Car
Taxi, Car-sharing
Transit of all kinds
Bicycle / scooter
Foot
Five Practical Choices Moving Around

Post-Motordom

Commercial Drive

Fraser Street

1972 COUNTER REVOLUTION

VANCOUVER: Looks like a 20th-century city. Works like a 19 th -century city.

Concord Pacific QUAYSIDE VANCOUVER: Looks like a 21st-century city. Works like a 19th-century city.

Auto and Pedestrian Movements Downtown (per day)
116,998 auto movements
about 70,000 pedestrian movements
1994
101,371 auto movements
108,500 pedestrian movements
1999

July 13, 2006

Walking City Streetcar Trolley City

Hollywood Freeway Chinatown Freeway

Chinatown Freeway

SkyTrain, Seabus and West Coast Express New Westminster to Coquitlam Central Broadway to Lougheed Mall Millennium Westcoast Express SeaBus Existing SkyTrain Future Richmond

Newport Village Port Moody

Suter Brook Port Moody SUTER BROOK Port Moody

Port Mann Bridge twin Highway 99 crossings South Fraser Perimeter Road North Fraser Perimeter Road Golden Ears Crossing Sea to Sky widening Pitt River Crossing Boundary Road Bridge Highway 1 widening Highway 99 / 1 link

“ By increasing the capacity of our transportation infrastructure, we allow traffic to flow more smoothly.” Kevin Falcon

Fraser Valley, British Columbia San Fernando Valley, California

THIS HOUSE IS NOT IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER

THIS HOUSE IS IN SHANGHAI

Nice planet. Too bad we can’t afford it. “ If we were to decide in the present generation to take all of the sacrifices and labours of the generations before us and exploit them fully for ourselves and give the back of our hand to the generations coming after us, it would be the most immoral act of any generation of humans in history. ” - Al Gore ( November, 2009 )

A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. - Tom Robbins Resilience

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MOTORDOM

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