Larry Beasley

Larry Beasley

Larry Beasley C.M., was recently Co-Director of Planning for the City Of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. He is largely credited with the transformation of its downtown core along New Urbanism lines, known as Vancouverism or "The Vancouver Model".

In 2004, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for having "played a leading role in transforming" Vancouver's "downtown core into a vibrant, livable urban community". [cite web|title=Order of Canada citation|url=http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=9088]

He is currently doing advising work for the Abu Dhabi government. [cite news
last= George-Cosh
first= David
url= http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=27f21b9d-49d4-44ac-a468-eb03cb0598e3&k=54710
title= The man who built Vancouver has a grand plan for Abu Dhabi
publisher= The Province
date= April 13, 2008
accessdate= 2008-04-15 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty%20profiles/beasley.htm Faculty page] at the University of British Columbia


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