Vancouver’s Cultural Parks Are Almost Gone, but Some Caretakers Haven’t Given Up
Of 20 parks built for Expo 86, just three remain. The stories of Deutscher Platz, Piazza Italia and Filipino Plaza.
Kaitlyn Fung is a graduate student at UBC’s School of Journalism, Writing and Media currently who recently completed a practicum at The Tyee. She grew up in the Cantonese diaspora on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ nations. Find her on Twitter @kaitlynfungi. SHARES Artur Luebkemann, who is German Canadian, likes to walk his dog to Deutscher Platz, one of several plazas launched 35 years ago along the BC Parkway for Expo 86.