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Originally Posted by sono65
I'm interested in why Vancouver's city council has taken such a harsh stance against anything with visual interest other than our natural surroundings? Jlousa you seem to be more in the know than a lot of people on this board. You mentioned before they've been fighting ads/billboards for years....why??? If done in a pleasing way, advertising/billboards really do add a lot of color and vibrancy to a city. Apparently we have liberals running our city council, but this attitude seems pretty conservative to me. We've had a constant barrage of seafoam, mediocrity, and concrete to go along with our concrete colored skies. A little bit of color/interesting public art/billboards/video screens/neon would probably benefit this city's image......no?  |
I like everything except billboards and ads.
Perhaps strategically placed they'd work for me, but usually not. The public art is around, but I think it's weak - I'd like to see larger, more prominant pieces. And you know, if the Gastown steam clock is so popular, why don't we make more of the same type of thing?