Exploring Vancouver

Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings (Fifth Edition)

Harold Kalman, Robin Ward, Robin Ward

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Harbour Publishing
03 January 2024

Architecture; Walking, hiking, trekking; Travel & holiday; Travel & holiday guides

This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city's architectural story up to date.

Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver's most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom the city's urban environment was created.

Containing more than four hundred entries, ten self-guided tours highlight significant buildings from all eras in the city and its metro region, and feature new projects that transform the skyline more radically than ever before. The tours-organized by neighbourhood and planned variously for walking, cycling, car and transit-reveal Vancouver in a constant state of reinvention, fuelled by real estate speculation, immigration and the egos of civic boosters, developers and architects. Today, this dynamic is colliding with architectural and urban planning responses to climate change. For the first time in the series, this edition includes the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples' role in the narrative, including information on several substantial local projects shaped by these communities and Nations.

For wayfinding, entries are numbered and keyed to maps. A glossary of architectural terms and styles is provided. Exploring Vancouver is the perfect companion for curious visitors and citizens of this fascinating metropolis alike.

By: Harold Kalman, Robin Ward
By (photographer): Robin Ward
Imprint: Harbour Publishing
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781990776274
ISBN 10: 1990776272
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 03 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harold Kalman is a specialist in architectural history and heritage conservation. He is the author of many texts, including A History of Canadian Architecture (Oxford University Press, 1994), Heritage Planning (Routledge, 2020), and Exploring Ottawa (Figure 1 Publishing, 2017). He is a member of the Order of Canada and holds appointments at the universities of Victoria and Hong Kong. Robin Ward is an architectural critic, writer, photographer, and graphic artist. He wrote a weekly column on architecture for the Vancouver Sun for more than a decade. He is the author of Robin Ward’s Vancouver and Robin Ward’s Heritage West Coast (1990, 1993), as well as architectural guides to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bangkok. Robin Ward is an architectural critic, writer, photographer, and graphic artist. He wrote a weekly column on architecture for the Vancouver Sun for more than a decade. He is the author of Robin Ward’s Vancouver and Robin Ward’s Heritage West Coast (1990, 1993), as well as architectural guides to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bangkok.