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Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada's Lotus Land

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My third book is now out!

Available in Vancouver book stores or can be ordered for $25. from:   mantua2003@hotmail.com

“A good read from Howard Rotberg. Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada’s Lotus Land is informed and fast-moving, revealing as it does with alarming clarity the political culture of Vancouver, Canada’s Lotus eating city… his discourse is infused with wit and professional insights from many years in real estate development for affordable housing… The readership for Exploring Vancouverism is broad and for professional planners and urban designers a valuable addition to their store of what must not be overlooked in a city so blessed with setting and scenery… You are held enthralled by the rapidity with which he brings into sharp focus the systemic nature ofVancouver's  grayness in the colours of success… Rotberg has written a piece that has a definite place in the literature on Vancouver. He should be commended for his insights, authenticity and style.”

- Shelagh Lindsey, retired Adjunct Professor of Architecture at UBC

 

 

Exploring Vancouverism

      

     The Political Culture of

     Canada's Lotus Land

L


CanadianValuesPress

an imprint of Mantua Books

ISBN 978-0-9734065-1-1

                                       

 


 

 

 

 

Exploring Vancouverism:

 

 The Political Culture of Canada’s Lotus Land

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

  Preface:   Values in a Time of Financial Challenges

 

1.      Introduction:  The Ideology of the Lotos Eaters

2.      The Emperor’s New City: Not a Fairy Story

3.      Ellison Wonderland:  Narcissism in Vancouverism

4.      Lusting for Location:   The Sexualization of Shelter

5.      Aspects of the Lotos Among the Young and the Old

6.      Resort Lobbies, Doggie Spas and Affordable Housing

7.      The Lotos Doesn’t Grow on Trees:   Gangs and the Distribution System

8.      The Downtown East Side: Through the Looking Glass

9.      EcoDensity and the Fraud on the Young

10.  White Collar Crime in the Wild West

11.  The Starbucks “Progressives” and the Ascent of “Tolerism”

12.   The Decline of Religion and the Worship of the Esthetic

13.   The Original “Mild-eyed” Lotos-Eaters:  Respecting and Accommodating Aboriginal Rights

14.  The Lotus Land of the Sky:  Architecture and Social Justice

15.   A Pause to Look at Some Numbers and the Economic Forecast

16.   Conclusion: Money and the Moderate Climate – the Resortification of Vancouver

 

Appendix:  Full Text of “The Lotos-Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson

 

 

Copyright Howard Rotberg 2008.   No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted without the        express written consent of the author.  All rights reserved.

 

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