| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages) : illustrations, map |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider the nature and role of civic art. |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Act -- Marker of Change / ̀A l'aube du changement -- CRAB Park Boulder -- Standing with Courage, Strength and Pride -- Part 2: Frame -- Public Space, Social Order and Visibility -- Memory: Blending the Personal and the Social -- Monuments: Permanence and Memory -- A Geographic Sensibility -- Part 3: Forge -- Continuousness of the Issue -- Acknowledging the Unseen -- Consolidating Claims of Community -- Design Features -- Street Smarts -- Proposition: A Politics of Visibility -- References -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Memorials -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Memorials. |
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British Columbia -- Vancouver. |
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Public art -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Public art. |
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Public spaces -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Public spaces. |
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Social action -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Social action. |
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Women -- Crimes against -- Canada.
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Canada. |
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Collective memory -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Crimes against. |
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e-books. |
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Collective memory. |
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
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Electronic books. |
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Social conditions. |
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British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Downtown-Eastside. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Burk, Adrienne L. (Adrienne Lee), 1954- Speaking for a long time. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010 9780774816984 (OCoLC)471042825 |
| ISBN |
9780774817004 (electronic book) |
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0774817003 (electronic book) |
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1283335379 |
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9781283335379 |
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9780774816984 |
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0774816988 |
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0774816996 |
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9780774816991 |
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