Title Speaking for a long time : public space and social memory in Vancouver / Adrienne L. Burk

Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Act -- Marker of Change / ̀A l'aube du changement -- The 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2021) Subject Memorials -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Public art -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Public spaces -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Social action -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Women -- Crimes against -- Canada Collective memory -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Electronic books. e-books. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Collective memory Memorials Public art Public spaces Social action Social conditions Women -- Crimes against SUBJECT Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Social conditions Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Downtown-Eastside Canada Form Electronic book ISBN 9780774817004 0774817003 1283335379 9781283335379

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