The City of Vancouver's EcoDensity initiative proposes that high quality and strategically located density can make Vancouver more sustainable, livable and affordable. Following the release of its draft Charter in November 2007, the City's Director of Planning asked Busby Perkins+Will to offer feedback and insight that could increase the initiative's effectiveness.

The firm launched into a comprehensive evaluation of EcoDensity, examining ways that Vancouver can accommodate its projected growth, maintain its reputation for livability and encourage affordability. Furthermore, the firm laid out a vision where Vancouver, by implementing a nodal EcoDensity, can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dramatically enough to be part of the solution for global warming.

The results of the firm’s critique have become part of the planning department’s vision for EcoDensity and have garnered attention from municipalities across the Greater Vancouver region. Data gathered by the firm has been invaluable in understanding how a city’s land use strategy can foster deep green development, district infrastructure and community amenities.

View the presentation to Vancouver City Council.

Watch the presentation video.

Read the OpEd in the Vancouver Sun.

Read the brochure Busby Perkins+Will on EcoDensity.