The document discusses the concept of 'motordom,' which refers to urban design heavily reliant on automobiles, resulting in low-density, auto-oriented environments. It critiques the reliance on car-centric planning and suggests alternative urban mobility options, highlighting the need for sufficient density and mixed-use development. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of adapting urban infrastructure to be resilient and sustainable for future generations.

1. MOTORDOM

2. Motordom Auto-Dependent Urban Form

3. Kamloops

4. Westbank

5. Courtenay

6. Cranbrook

7. Kelowna

8. Kelowna Form follows parking

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

10. 1942 First edition Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Handbook. Dedicated to the “ efficient, free and rapid flow of traffic .”

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

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

14. 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?

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

16. Cheap, secure energy

17. Crude Oil in 2008 Dollars 1861 2006

18. Peak Oil

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

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

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

24. Post-Motordom

26. Commercial Drive

27. Fraser Street

28. 1972 COUNTER REVOLUTION

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

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

31. 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

32. July 13, 2006

33. Walking City Streetcar Trolley City

34. Hollywood Freeway Chinatown Freeway

35. Chinatown Freeway

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

39. Newport Village Port Moody

41. Suter Brook Port Moody SUTER BROOK Port Moody

44. 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

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

46. Fraser Valley, British Columbia San Fernando Valley, California

47. THIS HOUSE IS NOT IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER

48. THIS HOUSE IS IN SHANGHAI

50. 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 )

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

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