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Vancouver Special is a term used to refer to houses built in a particular architectural style in the period from roughly 1965 to 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and its suburbs. There are houses in the Lower Mainland dating back to the late 1940s that look almost identical to the ''Vancouver Special''-so the housing design ideas predate the 1960s mass popularization and mass production of this kind of housing. Vancouver Specials are characterized by their typical "box-like" structure, low-pitched roofs, and balconies across the front of the house. Brick or stone finishes on the ground floor are characteristic of the ground level facades, with stucco on the 2nd or 3rd floors. Vancouver Specials have similar floor plans with the main living quarters on the upper floor and secondary bedrooms on the bottom, making them ideal for secondary suites. From a builder's point of view, it is a very sturdy—yet cheap in material and time—design to build. In response to public reaction to the proliferation of this design, the City of Vancouver made changes to the single-family zoning regulations in the 1980s with the intent to stop additional Vancouver Specials from being built. However, other Lower Mainland cities have not substantially changed their housing codes over the past 25 years with respect to this kind of housing design. Thus it is still possible to build (and buy) new houses (of very similar design to the classic Vancouver Specials) in the Lower Mainland. == Geographical distribution == It is somewhat of a misnomer that this kind of housing architecture is called the ''Vancouver Special'' when its geographical distribution is most common in the southern coastal region of British Columbia. However, the design is most common in Vancouver and Burnaby—so the name has stuck. Today one can find ''Vancouver Specials'' all over Greater Vancouver and notably in the suburb cities of * Richmond * Surrey * Burnaby * Delta and the Tri-Cities of Coquitlam & Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. This architectural housing design can also be seen elsewhere in the outer regions of the Lower Mainland and other parts of southern British Columbia where the climate is moderate, ''as this housing design is not optimal for coping with large quantities of snow.'' This housing architecture also can be found substantially in Victoria, Comox, Duncan and Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island) but is less common due to the different economic conditions and constraints there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vancouver Special」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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