Exploring Vancouver

By Harold Kalman, Robin Ward,

Book cover of Exploring Vancouver: Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings

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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.…

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1 author picked Exploring Vancouver as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A crash course in how the city's evolution has been shaped by its buildings old and new, their architects and developers, and touching on the campaigns to make the city "world class" while others try to hang on to its historic areas. Presented in an engaging tour format with excellent colour photos.

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