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Describes more than 70 of Toronto's Art Deco buildings, ranging from well-known office towers and department stores to modest neighbourhood corner stores and apartment buildings. Contains more than 230 contemporary colour photographs and a selection of archival black-and-white images that have never before been published.
May 2009, Toronto
Art Deco architecture in Toronto
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Describes more than 70 of Toronto's Art Deco buildings, ranging from well-known office towers and department stores to modest neighbourhood corner stores and apartment buildings. Contains more than 230 contemporary colour photographs and a selection of archival black-and-white images that have never before been published.
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May 2009, Toronto
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality(...)
Architecture in Canada
June 2009
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality of urban neighbourhoods with the requirements of suburban traffic.
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Tokyo from Vancouver 2
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Documenting a highly productive four month visit by a group of students from the University of British Columbia to Tokyo, this publication, edited by George Wagner, packs an impressive collection of projects and observations from both students and young practicing Japanese architects. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, drawings and details of(...)
Tokyo from Vancouver 2
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Documenting a highly productive four month visit by a group of students from the University of British Columbia to Tokyo, this publication, edited by George Wagner, packs an impressive collection of projects and observations from both students and young practicing Japanese architects. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, drawings and details of recent research and projects the book features work and thoughts from Dana Buntrock, Manabu Chiba, Sou Fujimoto, David Stewart and Kumiko Inui.
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This publication was born of a collaboration between Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery and is printed following the exhibition Territory (June 10 - August 6, 2006).
Territory: artspeak presentation house gallery
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This publication was born of a collaboration between Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery and is printed following the exhibition Territory (June 10 - August 6, 2006).
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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the(...)
Rise of cities: Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and other cities
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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the command centres of the world economy? Does globalization menace cities as we know them? Are cities able to exercise democratic control and strategic choice when multinational corporate competition increasingly limits the importance of place? The Rise of Cities offers intriguing responses to these questions by analyzing how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, and how they can remake themselves for better for worse. Examining key issues such as the parasitic relationships cities have with Nature, the webs of trade and immigration they rely on to survive, and the spatial structure of the contemporary metropolis, the contributors develop a startling outline of cities in crisis and demonstrate why the State has failed, and must fail, to end the urban crisis. These themes are explored through a variety of concrete, real-world examples of the challenges of urban politics: metropolitan governance, urban redevelopment policy, housing problems, grass roots activism and urban planning. In the background looms the spectre of neo-liberal globalization, with the development of influential world cities related to the emergence of modern telecommunications, the growth of multinational corporations and the generation of a world economy with an increased movement of cultural symbols and artifacts across national borders.
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Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined them-selves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture.
Canada and the idea of the north
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Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined them-selves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture.
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Sandra Meigs: strange loop
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A catalogue of Carleton University Art Gallery's exhibition of paintings of architectural interiors by Victoria painter Sandra Meigs. Rendered in grey-scale and complex linear perspective, the paintings are based on studies of 19th-century mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The essay analyzes Meigs’s work in relation to Gaston Bachelard’s theories on the psychological(...)
Sandra Meigs: strange loop
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A catalogue of Carleton University Art Gallery's exhibition of paintings of architectural interiors by Victoria painter Sandra Meigs. Rendered in grey-scale and complex linear perspective, the paintings are based on studies of 19th-century mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The essay analyzes Meigs’s work in relation to Gaston Bachelard’s theories on the psychological meanings of the house.
Manon de Pauw: intrigues
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Ce catalogue présentant plus d’une soixantaine de reproductions des œuvres de l’artiste, est en cours de préparation. Il s’agira de la première monographie consacrée à Manon de Pauw dont la pratique, malgré son importance, n’a pas encore fait l’objet d’une étude approfondie et reste peu documentée. Le livre reflétera de près le contenu de l’exposition tout en faisant le(...)
October 2009
Manon de Pauw: intrigues
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Ce catalogue présentant plus d’une soixantaine de reproductions des œuvres de l’artiste, est en cours de préparation. Il s’agira de la première monographie consacrée à Manon de Pauw dont la pratique, malgré son importance, n’a pas encore fait l’objet d’une étude approfondie et reste peu documentée. Le livre reflétera de près le contenu de l’exposition tout en faisant le point sur le parcours de l’artiste depuis les dix dernières années.
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In ''British Columbia by the road'', Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes.
British Columbia by road: car culture and the making of a modern landscape
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In ''British Columbia by the road'', Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes.
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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual(...)
Architecture in Canada
February 2019
Contested spaces, counter-narratives, and culture from below in Canada and Quebec
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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen – including flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space.
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