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Indlæser... Vancouver: A Visual History (udgave 1992)af Bruce Macdonald
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This excellent flipper-througher has been my breakfast-table book for a whilenow, but today it made the leap up to dinner-table book (okay, it's the same table), and that is worthy of memorialization on LibraryThing. Maps in 10-year increments, lots of gaps, clear demarcations of ethnic neighbourhoods (postwar Jewish quarter! prewar Japantown!) and neighbourhood-neighbourhoods (now I know where Marpole is!) and where they saw bears in the 1890s and all kinds of prominent folk with their little stories (every prominent corporate asshole, from Pattinson to Campbell, always starts out in real estate or used cars or such. I'm glad I'll never go down that road!) and just a million sweet facts and bright colours an the history of a tough, vulnerable hippie-Asian resource-retireopolis that is of the rainy Pacific Northwest but also has something all its own, and whose story is just beginning. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Absolutely unique in its presentational style,Vancouver: A Visual History is a delightful and important book. This stunning, full-colour historical atlas brings to life Vancouver's first fourteen decades, beginning with a map of the 1850s depicting the land use, economy and settlement patterns of its first peoples, and ending with a map of the 1980s.Using a repeating grid format, in which each ten-year period of the city'shistory is examined through the application of the same criteria, each decade is introduced by a full-colour map that illustrates land usepatterns. A column of text to the left of this map describes the major land use changes that have occurred since the previous decade; to the right of the map are notes that provide related details of the city's evolving history. Following each double-page map, the reader is introduced to the prominent personalities of the decade, in the area of sports,politics, business, labour, culture and community service, as well as given an overview of each period's economic focus, settlement patterns, political directions and key historical events. No library descriptions found. |
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