Was the electric streetcar the Northwest’s first sprawl machine?
That’s a topic that Price Tags (large-ish pdf), Gordon Price’s Vancouver-based urban design newsletter, looks at this week. He takes readers on a street-by-street tour of the remnants of streetcar villages in two cities that boomed during that era—Vancouver, BC, and Perth, Australia; looks at how "urban form responded to the opportunity" of the streetcar; and what automobiles brought to the party.
P.S.: Archives of Price Tags are posted on our website. Email Gordon at pricetags@shaw.ca to subscribe.
