Forty years ago, Stanley facilitated the community engagement for many neighbourhoods in Vancouver. Two of these places were formerly devoted to cars: Robson Square used to be a huge parking lot, and False Creek was a "car graveyard". His data revealed that ordinary citizens preferred to turn these areas into car-free spaces. Daphne Bramham interviews Stanley in the Vancouver Sun:
"It’s hard to believe that not that long ago serious consideration was given to filling in False Creek and paving it over with homes and roads. Architect Stanley King was among the first to challenge that idea and to imagine a residential community with a public market as its centrepiece built along the creek’s south shore on derelict industrial land..."Read more: False Creek South: It's near perfect, and it's mine - Vancouver Sun article by Daphne Branham
