{"id":18940,"date":"2013-02-26T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:53:06","slug":"granville-island-40-years-later-authenticity-that-ages-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/02\/26\/granville-island-40-years-later-authenticity-that-ages-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Granville Island: 40 Years Later – Authenticity that Ages Gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VHF would like to thank our guest writer for this weeks article Paul Nursey, Vice-President, Strategy and Corporate Communications at the Canadian Tourism Commission<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n

Defining Granville Island is a matter of perspective.\u00a0 I turned to the crowdsourcer of all crowdsources, Wikipedia, which clinically describes Granville Island as a peninsula that was once a major manufacturing area, but today is a major tourist destination and working neighbourhood.\u00a0 It is also lauded for its award in 2004 by the \u201cProject for Public Spaces\u201d which named Granville Island \u201cOne of the World\u2019s Great Places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whe\"(Entrance<\/a><\/strong>n Granville Island was redeveloped over 40 years ago by the Federal Government, it is very unlikely that those that put pen to paper and then executed the redevelopment could have expected the outcome that has materialized in creating a catalyst for human creativity.\u00a0\u00a0 What is special about the place from an architectural point of view is that Granville Island successfully, cleverly and creatively preserved and re-used buildings from its industrial past. This is most notable on the northwest side in the peninsula that now serves as a dignified home to the public market.<\/p>\n

What is even more special about, and unique to the place, is the careful cultivation of its use as a place of public interaction, and a platform for creative expression and talent -whether that expression be across performance, design, culinary arts, organic cultivation, artisan crafts or any of the other talent on display by those who now ply their trade in the context of Granville Island.\u00a0 This platform for creativity has added a deep human and social dimension to the cleverly re-designed space.\u00a0 Granville Island is now creating its own second generation of unique and very meaningful cultural history.<\/p>\n

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Granville Island is a local, meaningful icon but also a central draw for tourists because of its authenticity. This seems to be a strange statement about a place that experienced massive and master-planned re-development.\u00a0 But the re-development has aged gracefully. The vibrancy and authenticity is pulsing and very real. It is a well-researched fact that tourists are attracted to places where locals spend their time.\u00a0 In our age of over-connectivity there is a longing among travellers to return to their basic senses. In today\u2019s travel economy, built attractions like Knotsberry Farm are out, and deep connectivity to the place that one is visiting is in.\u00a0\u00a0 Granville Island as a platform for authentic creative talent\u00a0 and expression mixed with its beautiful natural setting delivers on all that today\u2019s experientially focused traveller could want and more.<\/p>\n

\"c110008_113rr\"<\/a>Forty years on from its re-development, Granville Island continues to delight and amaze in subtle but very human ways.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a very rare place in this world where one can be delighted with hand crafted jewelry and then five minutes later be watching harbour seals playing in False Creek while sipping on artisanal coffee.\u00a0 The place is all cradled in the context of a well-planned adaptive re-use where history is featured prominently.\u00a0 Even its faux bits, the tin and metal buildings that came along with the 1970s redevelopment seem to be aging gracefully.\u00a0\u00a0 Forty years on, they seem authentic now.<\/p>\n

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\"Paul<\/a>About the author:\u00a0 Paul Nursey is a rare fourth generation Vancouverite.\u00a0Paul hangs out in Bentall Four as Vice-President, Strategy and Corporate Communications at the Canadian Tourism Commission and serves as a Director at Vancouver Heritage Foundation.\u00a0 Paul studied Urban Studies and Land Economics at Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n

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Curious about where Granville Island is heading? Join us at the BCIT Downtown campus, Wednesday February 27th<\/sup> at 12pm as we discuss the future of Granville Island with Joost Bakker (Architect, Dialog) and Dale McClanaghan (Granville Island Trust).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit our website<\/span><\/a> <\/span>for more information or to sign up for the talk<\/p>\n

Photo Credits (in order of appearance)<\/span>
\nGranville Island<\/em>. 1931. City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-: Dist P172.2<\/span>
\n Entrance to Granville Island<\/em>. 1976 City of Vancouver Archives CVA 1135 – 37<\/span>
\n Remaining images, Canadian Tourism Commission<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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