Keeping the faith? Not in Vancouver

Fri, Feb. 26, 2010
By Frank Fitzpatrick
Inquirer Staff Writer

VANCOUVER - From Lion's Gate Bridge, the city's downtown skyline, spectacularly framed by water, sky, and mountain, is itself a natural wonder.

At night especially, beyond the great dark swath of Stanley Park on its western point, the glass-and-concrete skyscrapers, the residential-tower clusters, and Harbour Centre's circular top twinkle like a man-made constellation.

But visitors who soak in that view more deeply might see - or, rather, not see - something else. Vancouver, on closer inspection, lacks a common feature of most other North American cityscapes:

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