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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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Act

Marker of Change/ À 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

Speaking for a Long Time

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9780774816991, 978-0774816991
      ISBN10: 0774816996
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      Social and cultural anthropology Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Part 1: Act

      Marker of Change/ À 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

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