For the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

The Geller Group offers 12 GIFT IDEAS

for Vancouver
from around the globe

How about some delightful Dutch

floating home communities along our
waterfronts?

We have a modest civic museum. But how

about a world-class Urbanarium like the
Singapore City Gallery?

Londoners enjoy excellent public transit.

VOTE YES in forthcoming referendum for
our transit improvements.

Montpellier has vibrant buildings,

psychedelic trams & a vivid blue city hall.
Vancouver needs more colour too.

Palm Springs holds an annual Modernism

Week. We need an annual event
celebrating Pacific-Northwest architecture.

Too many Vancouver street medians are

littered with weeds. How about more
planters and flowers like Chicago?

Madrid offers charming safe pedestrianonly streets. Vancouver should enjoy some
too (along with those tasty tapas).

This beautiful city promotes civic pride

though architectural preservation.
Vancouver can learn from Kiev.

Moscows subway stations are stunning.

Vancouver needs to raise the bar on
transit station design.

Torontonians live in fee-simple row

houses ~ a much needed addition to
Vancouvers housing choices.

Santiago is a city teeming with art and

sculpture. Ordinary things can become
art in Vancouver too.

Every April 1st Odessa hosts a city-wide

comedy festival. Could this be a way to
get rid of our no-fun city moniker?

Wishing you a year of good

humour, health and happiness
in 2015
For more lists please join me at SFU Harbour Centre at 7pm
February 2nd for 12 Affordable Housing Ideas
April 1st for 12 Great Ideas for Vancouver
from around the world
Michael Geller Architect AIBC, FCIP, RPP
The Geller Group
Adjunct Professor, SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development
www.gellersworldtravel.blogspot.com
geller@sfu.ca