Historic Walks of Calgary

Historic Walks of Calgary

With its towering steel and glass skyscrapers, its endless modern suburbs, and its collective focus on the future, Calgary propagates its own greatest myth: that it is a city without history. But native archaeological sites, a reconstructed Mounted Police fort, and hundreds of historic homes, warehouses and commercial buildings that have escaped the wrecker's ball record the development of a nineteenth century cattletown into a twenty-first century metropolis.
Alternating boom-and-bust cycles created their own legacies, providing architectural examples of the pre-First World War real estate boom, a late 1920s economic recovery and the petroleum wealth that flowed after the Leduc oil discovery of 1947. Illustrated with over 300 contemporary and archival photos.
Country USA
Brand Red Deer Press
Manufacturer Red Deer Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780889952973
ReleaseDate 2005-06-21

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