Vancouver, the City that Lights-up the Sky

[mbarrick]

When I was a kid, growing up in Duncan, you could see Vancouver on cloudy nights. Not the city itself, even without Mount Tzouhalem and Saltsping Island in the way it is too far away to show over the horizon from Duncan, but the city made the clouds glow red. Douglas Coupland called Vancouver a City of Glass. Unlike other cities, most of the towers in Vancouver are residential, and so the lights come on in the evening rather than go out. Behold the result of a million floor-to-ceiling windows.

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*smack self in forehead*

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i completely keep forgetting to tell you- i ran into another duncanite! she used to write to write an editoral column for the local, mainly on tribal rights i believe. her name escapes me, but she is married to a friend of drew's- small continent!

Re: *smack self in forehead*

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It's all part of our subtle plot of world dominiation.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

when i lived on the praries and we would take a trip to calgary at night you could see the lights of calgary from the road from nobleford to granum...that's still well over 150km...