Reviews matching “9781553651703”
 Dream City"...Dream City is an essential book from whose venturesome spirit other essential books will be written." Vancouver Review, Apr 1, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"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, Dec 1, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"...lively and challenging book..." "The book's most valuable feature is the concise overview of the city's history, from its beginnings as a chit in massive land speculation through the accelerating development of the late 20th century." "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, May 1, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"Yet 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, The, May 21, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"Lavishly illustrated and persuasively argued, architect and urban planner Lance Berelowitz's Dream City: Vancouver a nd the Global Imagination makes a case for... more growth." Georgia Straight, The, May 5, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"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 defects we blissfully ignore." Canadian Geographic, Sep 1, 2005 Read more >> |
Dream City"It's reasonable to expect elegant writing in works of literature. Encountering it in a book like Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination, which at first promises a dry survey of Vancouver's urban evolution, with maps of original street grids, and vehicular networks, is pleasantly surprising." Books In Canada, Mar 1, 2006 Read more >> |
Dream City"Lance Berelowitz's Dream City has the look and feel of a glossy coffee-table book, the kind you might pick up in a Vancouver Airport gift shop. But Berelowitz offers up more than tourism copy and sweeping panotamas of the Coast Mountains and English Bay. He looks at how Vancouver is finally entering the national and global consciousness, a myth-making exercise that began in earnest when the city hosted Expo 86 and thatwon't be stopping anytime soon." rabble.ca, Nov 30, 2005 Read more >> |