12/10/2007 1900s: Vancouvers first designated commercial zone - PDF document

12/10/2007  1900’s: Vancouver’s first designated commercial zone  1930’s: light industries and warehouses  1970’s: de -industrialized; became an office/commercial town Tracing the path of development of Yaletown after Expo86  1986: Expo86 Geography 376 Project  1987: a large portion sold to Concord Pacific; Kelly S Liang rapid developments began  2006: construction of Canada Line started  Find a pattern of gentrification  Explore the possibility to combine change in land use and property value  Examine the different factors to gentrification and redevelopment ◦ Zoning ◦ History ◦ Immigration ◦ Etc.  Nelson, Seymour, Beach Crescent and Marinaside Crescent  Defined in Yaletown, a walking tour through history  Focus on the older warehouse streets 1

12/10/2007  From the database ◦ Geography files e.g. land use, roads, etc. ◦ Census data (1986)/2001  Digitized materials ◦ Ariel photos from GIC 1984/2004 ◦ On-screen digitization  BC Assessment ◦ Land use ◦ Property values 1986/2007 Collect data  To determine land use in 1984 from various data sources ◦ BC Assessment microfiche Create a polygon shapefile contains  Act Use, Plan #, assessment components all of the buildings Census data: ◦ Ariel photo join, export, digitization Input the values explore, etc. of each building using keyboard Gentrification ratio analysis Redevelopment Regression Index model results  To determine which addresses are together in Roll Number r = 029-138-64 64-93 93-0000 0000 one building ◦ BC Assessment  2007: roll #, guide maps  1986: assessment style, address, aerial photo ◦ Survey Roll number address 2

12/10/2007  Microfiche 2007 171~189  Microfiche 2007 67~69  5 x 13 x 12 x 21 ◦ more than16000 entries ◦ 2-week-long process ◦ Predictably many errors  Gentrification ◦ Ratio as opposed to increase ◦ Makes the number more significant ◦ Simple vs. adjusted  Simple gentrification ratio = property value 2007 / property value 1986  Adjusted gentrification ratio = (property value 2007 / property value 1986) / average inflation in property value of Vancouver  Provides a comparison to the rest of the city  Keeps the original ratios  Combined development indicator  Regression model ◦ Adjust gentrification ratio / redevelopment index ◦ To examine the correlation between proximity to water and property price ◦ To find a way integrate change of land use and increase in property value  Other factors: history, zoning policies etc.  Centroid instead of polygon ◦ An attempt to solve the MAUP problem ◦ Tools in GIS require data to be in points 3

12/10/2007  Census data ◦ Explore ◦ Clip ◦ Join / relate ◦ Field Calculation ◦ Normalization ◦ Etc. 4

12/10/2007  Overall idea ◦ Gentrification should be measured with change in land use? ◦ Redevelopment indicator: lack of rationale ◦ Gentrification= both commercial and residential  Jack Cockwell @ BC Assessment  Dr. David Ley  Geography project or an example of GIGO? ◦ Absence of reliable data ◦ Calculation errors ◦ BC Assessment: too many changes 5

12/10/2007  Broader area  Explored the possibility to combine change of land use and increase in property value  Incorporate more demographic components  Overall gentrification is present throughout  Separate commercial and residential the area, but more dramatic in the land  Run a different redevelopment index bought by Concord  Regression with factors other than the one  A strong relation between gentrification and examined in this project ethnic diversification  Census 2006  Many improvements can be made to the project, both ideological and practical 6