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Article: The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture.(Book Review)
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- Urban History Review
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- September 22, 2004
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Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 496. Illustrations. $49.95 (hardcover).
In a recent edition of her 1961 urban planning critique, Jane Jacobs wrote.
A city ecosystem is composed of physical-economic-ethical processes
active at a given time within a city and its close dependencies ...
[To investigate] city ecosystems demands [that we] focus [not] on
"things" and expect them to explain much in themselves. Processes are
always of the essence; things have significances [only] as
participants in processes.
--"Introduction," The ...