Arthur Erickson Said…

There has never been a device which embodies greater antipathy to the idea of community that the North American grid. It absolutely prevents points of arrival, places of meeting, nodes of concentration and focus, differentiation in the design of streets; and it ignores features of terrain and climate. Patterned on the grid system streets cannot serve the social purposes of the city as they should; they can only serve as channels for service, for ways of getting away. Yet the streets, not the individual buildings, make up the public space of the city. It is the street environment that both reflects and contributes to our civilization.

Came across this quote on a wall upstairs in the Art Gallery. If you need a change of pace from the Haida art downstairs, do venture up.

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