Vancouver and Its Region

Vancouver and Its Region is a broad-ranging account of one of the world's most spectacular and liveable metropolitan areas. It presents a finely drawn historical geography of the city and its surroundings, an incisive commentary on the contemporary city, and a valuable report on the impacts of urban growth on the biophysical environment. A unique collaborative enterprise involving nineteen members of the UBC geography department, whose expertise ranges from physical science through social science to the humanities and landscape photography, the book traces the physical, social, economic, historical, and environmental development of a relatively small but highly important area of British Columbia and Canada.