Main entry:

Berelowitz, Lance, 1956-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre ; [Berkeley] : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, ©2005.

Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
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.

Summary:

"Vancouver is a city of desire. In the opening years of the twenty-first century, Vancouver has willed itself into the consciousness of the world, seducing the global imagination with its experiments in contemporary city-making." "But is the attention deserved, and what are the forces driving the ferocious pace of growth and change that underlie Vancouver's emerging form? Dream City reveals how the city's street grid, transportation network and cult of the view - among other factors - are shaping its urban landscape."
"Lance Berelowitz offers a passionate exploration of the links between Vancouver's dramatic setting of ocean and mountains, its history of speculative development and its emerging culture of planning and design. He also makes the startling case that Vancouver is to the Canadian imagination what Los Angeles is to the American - a mythologized place of endless possibilities that is grounded in altogether more limited social and environmental realities. His provocative prose digs below the surface of observations made by local boosters and awestruck visitors alike: it is writing as a form of urban archeology."
"Dream City is illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs of many significant buildings and public spaces, and specially commissioned maps that reveal the underlying patterns of growth of Canada's youngest metropolis."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1553651030 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781553651031 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning British Columbia Vancouver History.
Architecture British Columbia Vancouver.
Urbanisme Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Histoire.
Architecture Colombie-Britannique Vancouver.
Architecture
City planning
Stadtplanung
Stadtentwicklung
Vancouver (B.C.) History.
Vancouver (C.-B.) Constructions.
British Columbia Vancouver
Vancouver

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 239976
Call No.: BIB 169896
Status: Available