Can V-Poles Replace Urban Clutter?

To clear its streets of cellphone towers, parking meters, Wi-Fi terminals, streetlights and even community message boards, the city of Vancouver is pushing forward with a scheme to compress all the technologies together into specialized "Vancouver poles" planted throughout the city.

"Meet your inevitable future," wrote novelist Douglas Coupland, the technology’s creator, in an introductory Tweet.

Tristin Hopper

Full Story: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/22/douglas-coupland-created-v-pole-may-take-high-tech-to-the-streets-in-vancouver/