* Constitutional law scholar Hester Lessard discusses Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and jurisdictional justice McGill University, 2011

* Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society ( Canada )

Examples are the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver ; Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington ; Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon ; Skid Row in Los Angeles, and San Francisco's Tenderloin District.

By at least the 1950s, " Skid Road " was commonly used to describe the more dilapidated areas in the city's Downtown Eastside, which is focused on the original " strip " along East Hastings Street due to a concentration of single room occupancy hotels ( SROs ) and associated drinking establishments in the area.

A portion of Vancouver's Skid Row, Gastown, has also been gentrified ; however it is in a difficult coexistence with the nearby impoverished Downtown Eastside along East Hastings Street.

These avenues of exposure make the Downtown Eastside a highly visible example of a skid row.

The Downtown Eastside ( sometimes abbreviated D. T. E. S.

The Woodward's Building | W43 Tower, a mixed housing development in Downtown Eastside, Vancouver

Revitalization plans for properties such as in the notorious Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, and Regent Park and Lawrence Heights in Toronto, aim to provide better accommodations for low-income residents, and connect them to the greater community.

The Central Loop ( CL ) Line, which opened September 22, 2012, runs from Downtown to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry via the Pearl District, the Broadway Bridge across Willamette River, the Lloyd District, and Central Eastside Industrial District.

Mayor Larry Campbell ( now a Liberal senator ), delivered on a campaign promise in 2003 to open North America's first safe-injection site for intravenous drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

* Constitutional Law professor Hester Lessard on the Downtown Eastside and Jurisdictional Justice

He has been criticized for commenting, after some 20 prostitutes went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, that there was " no evidence that a serial killer is at work.

In Canada: problems with drug use, discarded needles and crime made Downtown Eastside of Vancouver the location for the first facility, when Insite commenced operation in 2003.

Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside.

Vancouver's historic Chinatown ( Pender and Keefer Streets run through its center ) and Gastown Historical District ( Water Street ) are popular tourist areas in the Downtown Eastside.

Vancouverites do not traditionally see Gastown and Chinatown as Downtown Eastside locations although they do fall within its borders according to the City of Vancouver.

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden is also situated within the boundaries of the Downtown Eastside.

Tours of these mosaics and the Downtown Eastside are conducted by various groups.

In 2003 Vancouver Moving Theatre partnered with the Carnegie Community Centre to put on the Heart of the City Festival, the City of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Revitalization link which attracted thousands of visitors from outside the area.

The festival features Vancouver acts, provides food and beverages for residents of the Downtown Eastside, and creates awareness in keeping Crab Park a greenspace for the people in the neighbourhood.

As of 2009, an estimated 39 women were missing from the Downtown Eastside.

* Downtown Eastside Residents Association

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.

The latter two combine in the middle of the city to form the Downtown Connector ( I-75 / 85 ), which carries more than 340, 000 vehicles per day and is one of the ten most congested segments of interstate highway in the United States.

The city ’ s main street is named after a tree, and beyond the Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead business districts, the skyline gives way to a dense canopy of woods that spreads into the suburbs.

Downtown is located on a low terrace to the west of the river, with residential neighborhoods climbing hills to the west and extending southwards towards the town of Bow.

Downtown is the center of Chicago's financial, cultural, and commercial institutions and home to Grant Park and many of the city's skyscrapers.

West of The Village, Downtown contains the two tallest buildings in the Quad Cities: the Wells Fargo Bank Building, which is 255 feet tall, and the Mid-American Energy Building, which is 220 feet tall.

The university is made up of four campuses, with Sexton and Carleton located near Downtown Halifax, while Studley is closer to the Northwest Arm.

* 1935 – The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.

Downtown, the center of the city, is currently undergoing major redevelopment with new condos, apartments, offices and The Power & Light District ( shopping / entertainment development ) complete with bars, restaurants, a grocery store with a roof-top pool club called The Jones, a performing arts center, and The Sprint Center.

Downtown Kansas City itself is established by city Local ordinance | ordinance to stretch from the Missouri River south to 31st Street ( beyond the bottom of this map ), and from State Line Rd.

Downtown Kansas City is an area of bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line road to the West.

Areas near Downtown Kansas City include the 39th Street District is known as Restaurant Row and features one of Kansas City's largest selections of independently owned restaurants and boutique shops.

After years of neglect and seas of parking lots, Downtown Kansas City currently is undergoing a period of change.

Downtown Lansing has a historic city market that is one of the oldest continuously operating farmers ' markets in the United States.

The Downtown area between the rivers is known as the Golden Triangle, and the site at the actual convergence, which is occupied by Point State Park, is referred to simply as " the Point.

Downtown Pittsburgh is tight and compact, featuring many skyscrapers, nine of which top.

Downtown is serviced by the Port Authority's light rail and multiple bridges leading north and south.

It is also home to Point Park University, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Culinary Institute, a former Robert Morris University branch campus ( bought by Duquesne University in 2011 ) and Duquesne University which is located on the border of Downtown and Uptown.

In 2010, Crow contributed the original spoken-word track " My Name is Mwamaroyi " to the Enough Project and Downtown Records ' Raise Hope for Congo compilation.

As most of this area in the central peninsula is situated on a hill, it is rarely called " Downtown.