Laneways: The Most Boring Talk You'll Ever Hear About Vancouver

UBC Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium on December 9, 2021. Presented by Douglas Scott (UBC).
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When lockdown started, I decided to go out for a walk every day. Exploring my immediate neighbourhood turned into a systematic traversal of each street, and then each laneway. Every day I would walk a chunk of Vancouver, and after 20 months I completed every public path that I could find in the entire city. This introduced me to many unfamiliar parts of Vancouver, with the laneways (the neglected network of back alleys) probably holding the most fascination. In this presentation I'll describe some of the the things I discovered along the way and maybe you'll see some unexpected sides of our city. Note: there's no physics in this talk!

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I'm no expert, but for future funding, I recommend a fancy acronym like VALSS (Vancouver Area Laneway Synoptic Survey)

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Trivia: Burrard street did have a tree name (Cedar Street) until the Burrard street bridge caused it to be renamed in the 1930s.