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Dream city : Vancouver and the global imagination  Cover Image Book Book

Dream city : Vancouver and the global imagination / Lance Berelowitz.

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  • ISBN: 9781553651031 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1553651030 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver ; Douglas & McIntyre, c2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The elemental city -- 2. In the garden of Eden -- 3. In nature's way -- 4. The physical armature -- 5. Brushes with destiny : Vancouver's experience with master-planning -- 6. The transportation palimpsest -- 7. The road not taken -- 8. For sale : the (abridged) story of Vancouver's development community -- 9. A sense of place : characteristics of Vancouver's public realm -- 10. Urbanists at large in the garden city : the search for an urban tradition -- 11. Edge city -- 12. The domestic tradition : the search for an indigenous architecture -- 13. A brief history of zoning -- 14. Hollywood north -- 15. Public life or spectacle? : the culture of public space.
Subject: City planning > British Columbia > Vancouver > History.
Architecture > British Columbia > Vancouver.
Vancouver (B.C.) > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design HT169 .C32 V353 2005 (Text) 30215001 Book Volume hold Available -


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