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Originally Posted by officedweller
Here's the City Report for Yaletown Park from 2003:
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The concept of the park builds on these characteristics. It is conceived as a simple rectangular "outdoor room" with green walls: double rows of trees along the streets, and single rows along the buildings. These trees sit in large raised planters with lush seasonal plantings offering colour, scent, movement, variety and exuberance. The impact of Nelson Street is filtered through screens overgrowing with vines. These strong vertical green edges are perforated to allow pedestrian passage, drawing people in from the sidewalks.
The centre portion of the park is a softly undulating carpet of granite setts, studded with curving pieces of old granite curbs for informal seating under a canopy of ornamental flowering trees. More formal seating is incorporated on all four sides. Artful and subtle lighting will keep the park welcoming and safe after sunset.
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I used to pass by this park all the time when I worked in Yaletown and it has always sucked, but I'm pretty sure it follows this design pretty closely. Two rows of trees from the street, one row of trees from the buildings, the rows of trees are in planter boxes, they build the screens but like the article said the vines failed to thrive, the inner area is certainly "undulating". It certainly fails to be useful space, but I still think they created exactly what they designed.
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