TEAM IN OFFICE: FROM IDEOLOGY TO PRACTICE: More humane and aesthetic city was the primary objective, major commercial street was shut to all but public transport, the city was secure, heritage buildings renovated, new parks added, public access to the waterfront improved, public spaces were protected, animat ed, and humanized; a more vital and even festive ambience was sought and to some extent achieved, most notably in a series of successful annual spring and summer festivals in the parks, beaches, and bays around central city, whose sponsors included the city's social planning department. All of these initiatives flowed from TEAM's policy that Vancouver should be "a city people can live in and en- joy." The quality of urban experience, the satisfaction of the "higher needs" of human sen sibility, became a daily preoccupation of city hall