The Globe and Mail

In public workshops in late August, City of Vancouver planners showed off their latest thinking for the Southeast False Creek neighbourhood. The plans merit a close look, as this is the last residential zone to be developed along our most prominent waterfront. Because this mixed-income residential zone will dance across global television screens for several weeks in early 2010 as the Olympic athlete's village, the urban design stakes here are even higher than usual. Higher, stronger, faster—this is one spot where Vancouver must show off the Olympic spirit of its very best city-building skills.