Located at the western coast of Canada and on the jap fringe of the Asia-Pacific Rim, Vancouver is a
mid-sized gateway metropolis among North America and Asia (Hutton, 1998). These boundaries constrain physical
boom of the metropolis, and are one of the motives why the metropolis has tended to develop upwards, as an alternative than
outwards, in latest years. Of those forty%, the 5 maximum spoken languages were
Chinese (languages combined), Punjabi, Tagalog (Filipino), Korean and Farsi (Duff and Becker-Zavas,
2017). In 2011, over forty% of Metro Vancouver`s populace spoke a mom tongue aside from one in all
Canada`s legit languages (English and French). The
City of Vancouver`s populace grew via way of means of 48% among 1971 and 2016, at the same time as Metro Vancouver`s
populace has grown via way of means of 140% over the equal period, boom mainly attributed to migration each from
inside Canada and internationally. On the only hand, it's far mentioned as one of the maximum suitable locations to
stay globally, in terms of first-rate of lifestyles and livability indices. The 2016 census found out that “seen minorities” (“humans of colour”) make up the bulk of
the populace in 5 Metro Vancouver municipalities consisting of Richmond, Burnaby and Surrey2
(Statistics Canada, 2016). forty six million withinside the wider agglomeration of `Metro Vancouver` this is made
up of 21 municipalities1, Vancouver is Canada`s 0. Furthermore, a few 22% of the Metro Vancouver location is detailed as
“Agricultural Land Reserve” (ALR), a zoning delivered in 1973 which protects land for farming and
consequently offers similarly constraints on boom outwards (Metro Vancouver, 2014), at the same time as generous
allocations of land assets for wasteland and parks similarly constrain city improvement withinside the
area.
This metropolis profile will seriously discover signifying contrasts in Vancouver`s improvement trajectory , via way of means of
studying the records and contemporary positioning of Vancouver on the sector stage, particularly looking
past the headline information in terms of desirability and livability, to discover a number of the demanding situations that
the metropolis faces.
