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    Architecture and the Canadian fabric / edited by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.

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    • Title:Architecture and the Canadian fabric / edited by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, 1946-
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture and society--Canada.
      Architecture--Political aspects--Canada.
      Architecture--Canada--History.
    • Description:xvi, 514 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780774819398
      0774819391
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE IN FRENCH CANADA AND BEFORE
      1. First Impressions: How French Jesuits Framed Canada / Judi Loach
      2. Visibility, Symbolic Landscape, and Power: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's View of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc Grignon
      pt. 2 UPPER CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE
      3. Expansion of Religious Institution and Ontario's Economy, 1849-74: A Case Study of the Construction of Toronto's St. James Cathedral / Barry Magrill
      4. "For the benefit of the inhabitants": The Urban Market and City Planning in Toronto / Sharon Vattay
      pt. 3 BUILDING THE CONFEDERATION
      5. Shifting Soil: Agency and Building Type in Narratives of Canada's "First" Parliament / Christopher Thomas
      6. Stitching Vancouver's New Clothes: The World Building, Confederation, and the Making of Place / Geoffrey Carr
      7. Digging in the Gardens: Unearthing the Experience of Modernity in Interwar Toronto / Michael Windover
      pt. 4 RECONSTRUCTING CANADA
      8. Modern Heritage House of Memories: The Quebec Bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset
      9. Place with No Dawn: A Town's Evolution and Erskine's Arctic Utopia / Alan Marcus
      pt. 5 STYLING MODERN NATIONHOOD
      10. Idea of Brutalism in Canadian Architecture / Rejean Legault
      11. Nation, City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston Hanks
      pt. 6 FABRICATING CANADIAN SPACES IN THE LATE/POSTMODERN ERA
      12. From Earth City to Global Village: McLuhan, Media, and the Cosmopolis / Richard Cavell
      13. Big-Box Land: New Retail Format Architecture and Consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail
      14. Archi-tizing: Architecture, Advertising, and the Commodification of Urban Community / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
      pt. 7 IDENTITIES OF CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE
      15. "Canada's Greatest Architect" / Nicholas Olsberg
      16. Question of Identity / Michael McMordie
      17. Memory, the Architecture of First Nations, and the Problem with History / Daniel M. Millette.
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