Savage and domestic: The Parks of Vancouver

• Autores: George Woodcock
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 3, Nº 3, 1983, págs. 169-175
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nobody doubted that Vancouver, incorporated as a city in 1886, would one day be among the chief ports of the Americas. It was founded as the western terminus of the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway), and was already booming. Yet in a particularly covetable part of the city area, beside the narrows which formed the harbour entrance, the city fathers established a park. It was to become, so many travellers thought, the most beautiful park in the whole world, half savage, half domestic, with water on three sides of it and the soft Pacific winds ruffling its trees - a damp west coast park, where the moisture steamed out of the tree-bark when the sun came out, and sometimes even the morning birds were to be seen preening their feathers in a haze of vapour.