Northeast False Creek is one of the last remaining parcels of undeveloped land in downtown Vancouver. A major landscape proposal, the project sought to reconnect the city with the waterfront, restore the native ecology, and provide social space for the diverse population of Vancouver, including the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Indigenous Tribes, the historic Black community of Vancouver, and the long-established Chinese-Canadian community. Rectifying the historic injustice of cutting an elevated highway through these communities, the city committed to replacing it with ground-level thoroughfares. The project also involved intense ecological remediation of a highly polluted, capped and paved waterfront, allowing residents to connect with the central waterfront plot.