https://evelazarus.com/a-tale-of-two-vancouvers/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://evelazarus.com/a-tale-of-two-vancouvers/#comment-3018 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:31:51 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6344#comment-3018 Worn-out Kennedy, as Harry Rankin used to call him, was a strange combination of wild-eyed visionary and arch-conservative, as Rob Cardinal notes. In about Grade 9, I interviewed him about becoming an architect for a school project – we were all supposed to research what our future career might be like. Then I remember him at City Council in the early 1970s, one of the phalanx of stern NPA aldermen who were totally pro-development. His book is neat, though, very much of its time, and he wrote another, even more of a tract, entitled Vancouver: Fight for it or Lose It! in 1982. I put a brief bio and photo of him in my 2012 Vanishing Vancouver, p. 151.

]]> https://evelazarus.com/a-tale-of-two-vancouvers/#comment-3017 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:07:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6344#comment-3017 Interesting post Eve. I think we’ve discussed Mr. Kennedy’s record as a “visionary” in previous exchanges. As for the duplication of civic governments per Vancouver and the North Shore, on the bright side, your post shows we have 4 city/municipal halls of compelling modernist design!

]]> https://evelazarus.com/a-tale-of-two-vancouvers/#comment-3016 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:59:17 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6344#comment-3016 Eve!…. . I am old enough to remember the late Architect Warnett Kennedy……a staunch conservative member of the NPA back in the ’60s and 70’s……Few people on the North Shore would have agreed with his densifying the trees and relatively quiet area, and turning it into ” Vancoyver,2″…lol

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