- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: D&m Adult (Mar 17 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1553651030
- ISBN-13: 978-1553651031
- Product Dimensions: 26.8 x 20.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #77 in Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Urban & Land Use Planning
- #82 in Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Urban & Land Use Planning
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"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 20050901)
"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 20050521)
"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 20050401)
"Dream City is an essential book from whose venturesome spirit other essential books will be written." (Vancouver Review 20050501)
"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 20050505)
"Lavishly illustrated and persuasuvely argued, architect and urban planner Lance Berelowitz's Dream City makes a case for...more growth." (Georgia Straight ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"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 20050521)
"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 20050401)
"Dream City is an essential book from whose venturesome spirit other essential books will be written." (Vancouver Review 20050501)
"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 20050505)
"Lavishly illustrated and persuasuvely argued, architect and urban planner Lance Berelowitz's Dream City makes a case for...more growth." (Georgia Straight ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
The story behind Vancouver’s emerging urban form: the buildings, public spaces, extraordinary landscapes and cultural values that have turned the city into the poster-child of North American urbanism.
Located at the edge of a continent and at the corresponding edge of national public consciousness, Vancouver has developed in unique and unanticipated ways. It is now emerging as an experiment in contemporary city-making, with international interest in Vancouver as a model of post-industrial urbanism increasing exponentially.
Lance Berelowitz explores the links between the city’s seductive natural setting, its turbulent political history and changing civic values, and its planning and design culture. He also makes the startling case that Vancouver is to Canada’s imagination what Los Angeles is to the American—a mythologized place of endless possibilities, while being grounded in an altogether more limited set of socio-economic and environmental limitations.
Dream City is richly illustrated with both historical and contemporary photographs of many significant buildings and public spaces, as well as specially commissioned maps that reveal the underlying patterns of growth and change of Canada’s youngest metropolis.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Must read for residents in Vancouver...,
By Irving Lau (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination (Hardcover)
I absolutely enjoyed going through this book, I was so encaptured by Berelowitz's understanding of my hometown that I went through the book in just a few days. His view of the city is a pretty balanced one and his insight into Vancouver is genuine. The subjects discussed will probably resonate most with Vancouver residents but for avid tourists that share a passion for Vancouver, the books for you. An informed opinion on the subject, Berelowitz celebrates our city and provides ideas on what could be in the future.Finally, a book on Vancouver that uses non-stock photographs!! Some great views of such a great city, even though they're mostly in black and white. The educational worth in the book for people with more than a passing interest is astounding.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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not bad,
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This review is from: Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination (Hardcover)
Doug Coupland's City of Glass is the best book on our spanky new city, read that first.
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Must read for residents in Vancouver...,
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This review is from: Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination (Hardcover)
I absolutely enjoyed going through this book, I was so encaptured by Berelowitz's understanding of my hometown that I went through the book in just a few days. His view of the city is a pretty balanced one and his insight into Vancouver is genuine. The subjects discussed will probably resonate most with Vancouver residents but for avid tourists that share a passion for Vancouver, the books for you. An informed opinion on the subject, Berelowitz celebrates our city and provides ideas on what could be in the future.Finally, a book on Vancouver that uses non-stock photographs!! Some great views of such a great city, even though they're mostly in black and white. The educational worth in the book for people with more than a passing interest is astounding. |
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