Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination - Hardcover

Berelowitz, Lance

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9781553651031: Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553651030 ISBN 13: 9781553651031

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005

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Vancouver, located at the edge of a continent and the edge of national consciousness, has become the model for post-industrial urbanism. Does it deserve the attention? This provocative new book explores the links between the city’s seductive natural setting, turbulent political history, planning and design culture, and the local and global forces that are reshaping Vancouver’s urban environment at a ferocious pace. Filled with historical and contemporary photographs and maps, Dream City offers compelling insight into how buildings, public spaces, extraordinary landscapes, and civic values have merged to form a uniquely 21st-century city.

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About the Author:

Lance Berelowitz is the principal of Urban Forum Associates Planning and Urban Design.

Review:

.With the aid of photographs and historic maps, Berelowitz also makes many bold observations about a city whose charms many of us take for granted and whose defcts we blissfully ignore.. (Canadian Geographic)

.While he's enthusiastic about Vancouver, Berelowitz isn't wholly uncritical. Furthermore, he's an engaging, knowledgeable writer. I find Dream City an often fascinating overview of how urban planning has shaped a city I know well.. (Vancouver Sun)

.Dream City is an essential book from whose venturesome spirit other essential books will be written.. (Vancouver Review)

.Full of fascinating detail and thoughtful visions of Vancouver's future, Dream City is just as engaging, and maddeningly contingent, as the city it portrays.. (Quill & Quire)

.Lavishly illustrated and persuasuvely argued, architect and urban planner Lance Berelowitz's Dream City makes a case for...more growth.. (Georgia Straight)

.Even if you never get to Vancouver, this book offers the pleasure of seeing an acute, well-informed observer trying to come to grips with a unique place.. (Planning Magazine)

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