Download or read book Vancouverism written by Larry Beasley and published by On Point Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable city underwent a radical transformation that saw it emerge as an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its livability, sustainability, and competitiveness. City-watchers everywhere took notice and wanted to learn more about this new model of urban growth, and the term “Vancouverism” was born. This book tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. The author is a former chief planner of the City of Vancouver and was a key player at the heart of the action. Writing from an insider’s perspective, Larry Beasley traces the principles that inspired Vancouverism and the policy framework developed to implement it. The prologue, written by Vancouver journalist Frances Bula, outlines the political and urban history of Vancouver up until the 1980s. The text is also beautifully illustrated by the author with more than 200 colour photographs. Cities everywhere are asking the same question. Shall we shape change or will change shape us? This book shows how one city discovered positive answers, and it offers the principles, tools, and inspiration for others to follow.
Download or read book World s Fairs and the End of Progress written by Alfred Heller and published by World's Fair. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World's fairs were created to show off the wonders of the industrial revolution. But industrial progress has led to a polluted planet. This book provides an overview of world's fairs at the turn of the millenium. It describes the nature of fairs, shows how they evolved, & considers where they may be headed. The author demonstrates how fairs have tried to cope with the environmental consequences of the idea of progress they have traditionally celebrated. He suggests how fairs (& by implication the society as a whole) can do a better job of it in the future.
Download or read book Have Not Been the Same written by Michael Barclay and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years ago Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate, keeping up his end of the bargain and staying off the grid. Then, thousands of miles from the city he once escaped, a man comes calling on Wilson with a gun in hand and a woman in his trunk. Wilson is pulled back into his old life as a "grinder" to work under the radar to quietly find out who is responsible for a dangerous mobster's missing nephews and this time all bets are off.
Download or read book Vancouver in the Seventies written by Kate Bird and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vancouver in the Seventies presents 149 exclusive photos from the Vancouver Sun's extensive collection along with fascinating essays."--
Download or read book The Expo Book written by Gordon Linden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expo Book: A Guide to the Planning, Organization, Design & Operation of World Expositions
Download or read book The Vancouver Games written by JDP Econ and published by JDP Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the International Olympic Committee members selected the western Canadian city of Vancouver and its mountain top sister Whistler as the sites of the 2010 Winter Olympics on July 2, 2003, it did so for many reasons. Geopolitical. A great bid plan. The cosmopolitan nature of the host city and the spectacular alpine views from the resort municipality of Whistler. But the main reason Vancouver was a spectacular choice was buried deep within the bid committee literature and will prove to be the penultimate reason why IOC bid evaluation committee chairman Gerhard Heiberg praised Vancouver's choice as a potential host of the best Olympics ever, ... Expo '86. The Vancouver Games: A Spectacular Choice recounts the bid victory and reasons why Vancouver will host a great Olympic Games. Based on the data from the World's Fair Decision Model project by JDP ECON. See why the outstanding experience of Vancouver with hosting Expo '86 will bode well for the Olympic movement in 2010.
Download or read book This Day in Vancouver written by Jesse Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Download or read book Vancouver written by Constance Brissenden and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver is Canada’s gateway to the Pacific, and it attracts millions of visitors each year. See what draws them in, with this insider’s look at the city’s most awe-inspiring sights and fascinating history. Written by an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in the Pacific Northwest, and lushly illustrated with Elan Penn’s gorgeous photos, it showcases both well-preserved Victorian landmarks and modern views. Visit the welcoming vistas and parks (including the grand 1,000 acre Stanley Park); the galleries and museums, such as the Museum of Anthropology with more than 6,000 First Nation objects on display; and dazzling architectural and natural wonders--including the old-growth forests that surround the city. Every page reveals a new and spectacular treasure.
Download or read book North Vancouver s Lonsdale Neighbourhood written by Shervin Shahriari and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Vancouver occupies one of the world's most scenic urban settings. Lonsdale Avenue, running from the waters of Burrard Inlet to the mountains of the Coast Range, is the community's de facto main street. In early 1903, Alfred St. George Hamersley purchased a substantial parcel of land from Henry Heywood Lonsdale and James Pemberton Fell's Lonsdale Estate. Hamersley's property, called the Town of Lonsdale, later became the town site of North Vancouver. In North Vancouver's early years, Lonsdale Avenue was the spine along which the community developed. Lonsdale is still North Vancouver's most important street and acts as the main artery for commercial, political, and social life. Through rare vintage photographs illustrating how people lived, played, and worked, North Vancouver's Lonsdale Neighbourhood explores the community's fascinating history.
Download or read book Just Beyond the Very Very Far North written by Dan Bar-el and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
Download or read book Cross border Cultural Production written by Janet Wasko and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses issues revolving around the production of mediated cultural products across borders. More specifically, the authors consider cross-border cultural production in the film and television industries and how it affects and is affected by media centers, and, more recently, established production locations. The film and television industries have long been recognized as playing important economic, political and cultural roles. And while it could be argued that, historically, these forms of cultural production often have been international endeavors, the choice of production sites has become an especially contentious issue during the last few decades as global production has expanded. While some factions, notably from the US film and television industries, refer to this issue as "runaway production," this book takes a much broader look at the implications and consequences of this phenomenon. Basically, cross-border production involves the expansion of production away from traditional centers, whether to other countries or to other locations within the same country. Thus, this study covers a wide range of issues involving economic and political considerations, as well as creative and aesthetic decision-making.
Download or read book The Curses of Third Uncle written by Yee, Paul and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1909, and Lillian Ho's father has mysteriously disappeared.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Columbia written by Daniel Francis and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BC publishing event of the decade! 30,000 copies in print!
Download or read book Made in the Twentieth Century written by Larry R. Paul and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Areas including the US mail, production and packaging, brand names and characters, radio and television, and expositions and the Olympics. A final chapter covers how collectors can develop their own dating system. Paul is a longtime collector and display designer based in Baltimore. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Evictions and the Right to Housing written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evictions and the Right to Housing: Experience from Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, and South Korea
Download or read book Art Index written by Alice Maria Dougan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habitat 76 written by Lindsay Brown and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitat ’76 is an illustrated history of the founding conference of UN Habitat in Vancouver in the mid 1970s, with a particular focus on the conference’s free public component known as Habitat Forum. That first UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements attracted to Vancouver a who’s who of international thinkers on settlements and cities including Margaret Mead, Buckminster Fuller, Mother Teresa, economist Barbara Ward and utopian architect Paolo Soleri, along with politicians such as Pierre Trudeau and Bogota’s famous mayor Enrique Peñalosa. Habitat Forum, designed for activists, NGOs and the general public, was simultaneously deemed an out-of-control hippie gathering and “the official suicide of the counterculture.” Though the Forum had the official UN stamp, suggesting that it was an officially sanctioned substitute for the type of informal protest camp seen at the UN Environment conference in Stockholm in 1972, Habitat Forum was anything but the polite, professionalized urbanist conferences we see today. While the official governmental conference downtown was bogged down by the Israel-Palestinian question, Habitat Forum brought together activists and major thinkers from all over the world in a casual, freewheeling and sometimes fractious environment. It was a catalyzing moment for those who attended, inspiring and influencing their work for decades after. In Habitat ’76 Vancouver writer, designer and civic activist Lindsay Brown tells the story of Habitat Forum: the citizens who circumvented government to make it happen, the many players who participated, and the complex yet little known legacy it left behind. Including hundreds of photographs never before published and interviews with dozens of the original organizers and attendees, the book is the first history of this event. The extensive photo archive in Habitat ’76 details for the first time how in only five months, five vintage military seaplane hangars on Vancouver’s Jericho beach were refurbished into welcoming public spaces by an 11,000-strong army of artists, architects, unemployed youth, students, ex-cons and volunteers in an early feat of DIY recycling and adaptive reuse. Documentation of the site and its construction will interest designers and event organizers alike, while sections on the presentations and discussions that took place there will interest anyone who cares about human settlements. Forty years on, Habitat ’76 provides not only a history of a specific event but a more general picture of the tumultuous 1970s in Vancouver and beyond. The approaches and discourses of that time—optimistic, utopian, imaginative—perhaps merit reconsideration now. Cities now face challenges similar to those already looming in the 1970s, but those challenges have intensified, and Habitat ’76 provides an instructive counterpoint to the contemporary version of urbanism.
