“…Idealistic planners and architects were seeking to tackle problems in new ways to make the world a better place (Hardwick, 1994). Christopher Alexander, an architect whose Pattern Language (Alexander, Ishikawa & Silverstein, 1977) found many followers and helped influence the design of False Creek South (Hardwick, 1994;Phillips, 1993;Ley, 1987). 3 More importantly, perhaps, this period represented "the high point of the Canadian welfare state," before the accumulation of a massive federal deficit (Ley, 2019).…”