Unbuilt Calgary A History of the City That Might Have Been

Name: Unbuilt Calgary A History of the City That Might Have Been
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ISBN: 9781459703308

ISBN-10: 1459703308

ISBN-13: 9781459703308

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephanie White

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Calgary is a typical boom and bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or building. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back. But Calgary can also be an unsentimental city, with ideas, plans, and buildings being discarded with ease. Unbuilt Calgaryis a survey of 30 projects that were proposed but not built, projects that were situated at critical times in Calgary's development, and projects that indicated the city's ambitions through its first hundred years. Unbuilt Calgarylooks back to ideas and schemes that might have been, and projects that…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 11/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 9.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Introduction


Canadian Pacific Railway



Dominion Grid Survey of the Prairies in advance of railway building



Patrick Burns



Calgary as a service depot - Alyth Yards, the main line, the southeast quadrant



Calgary downtown: a CPR urban landscape



CPR landholdings


Department of National Defence



WWI and Camp Sarcee



R B Bennet, the Depression and Currie Barracks



WWII and the Commonwealth Air Training Programme



CFB Calgary



Canada Lands


Oil and Gas



CPR landholdings and oil and gas development



International petroleum company investment in Alberta



White-collar immigration from USA from 1960 on



Architecture as brand: Calgary downtown from 1970 on



Re-branding of Calgary as an energy centre


Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation



Post-WWII suburbanisation



Experimental housing programs of the 1960s



Social landscape: Calgary as distinct economic sectors



The development industry



New Urbanism