Template:Did you know nominations/Geoffrey Massey
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:24, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
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Geoffrey Massey
... that modernist Canadian architect Geoffrey Massey was inspired to take up urban design by Le Corbusier's grounds-up design of the Indian city of Chandigarh? Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-pioneer-of-west-coast-modernism-helped-shape-vancouver-culture/- ALT1:... that modernist Canadian architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver? Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/west-coast-architecture-legend-geoffrey-massey-dies-at-age-96 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-pioneer-of-west-coast-modernism-helped-shape-vancouver-culture/
Created by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 07:14, 12 December 2020 (UTC).
- Hi Ktin, I'll pick this one up. Article was created 12 December; article is of good length; article is adequately well written (there are a couple of unusual turns of phrase but nothing major); article is cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources; I didn't spot any overly close paraphrasing from the sources; I can't access either of the sources used to support the hooks, are you able to provide quotations to support these; I would note that the article text doesn't currently support the first hook, it only states that he took part in debates on urban design, not that he was introduced to the field by Le Corbusier's work - Dumelow (talk) 06:29, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks @Dumelow:. Here you go.
At Harvard, much of the academic and peer discussion had centred on new ways of designing urban environments, including Le Corbusier’s entirely new city of Chandigarh in India. He hoped to find similar opportunities in fast-growing British Columbia.Once hired, however, Mr. Massey was dismayed when he saw drawings of its rigid urban template and monotonous house designs. He then realized that instead of Canada’s Chandigarh, this would be Alcan’s company town – economically driven and utterly banal. It was his first rude awakening to the limitations of his chosen profession.
-- This one is for the first hook. For the second hook here's the textAs a Vancouver city councillor with Art Phillips and TEAM in 1972, he was part of a political movement that put a stop to freeways and redeveloped the south side of False Creek from industrial to residential.
. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 06:37, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Ktin, I am happy this source supports what is stated in the article but not convinced that ALT0 reflects this. I've reworded ALT1 slightly ("ended freeways from entering" didn't sound right to me) and am happy to approve that one. QPQ has been carried out - Dumelow (talk) 07:09, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks @Dumelow:. Here you go.
