Dan Fumano: Sim aims to make Vancouver swagger again — what does that mean?
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Vancouverites are rightly proud of how “livable” their city is, says Resonance CEO Chris Fair, who is based in Vancouver. Vancouver has stunning natural beauty, and is more safe and walkable than many similar-sized or larger cities.Vibrancy, he said, is an increasingly important factor that helps attract people and investment to places like the cities Sim’s speech mentioned by name: Miami, Austin, Tex., London, England, and Hong Kong .
“These cities have vibrant cultural scenes and are attracting talent, and startups are forming around that. There’s an increasing convergence between the factors that make a city desirable to visit, that are also making it desirable to start and grow a business. I think that’s probably where Vancouver hasn’t changed so much, but the rest of the world has changed.”
Vancouver’s biggest challenges include social disconnection, housing affordability and inequality, said Montgomery, author of the 2014 book“We need to start taking risks again as a city,” Montgomery said. “Cities around the world once looked to Vancouver for examples in urban innovation. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, we proved that downtowns could be great places for living in a way they hadn’t been for half a century.
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