City of Glass: Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver

Fully redesigned, the iconic bestselling book of Coupland’s personal reflections on his home city, which gave rise to the city’s international moniker, City of Glass
Conceived by Douglas Coupland and Judith Steedman in the style of underground Japanese magazines, City of Glass sold more than 15,000 copies when first released in 2000. From the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Chinatown, this revised edition reveals Vancouver to the world as the city prepares for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. This edition includes: .24 additional pages and expanded content riffing on such themes as Vancouver as a neon city and a land of treehuggers .guest appearances by Fred Herzog, whose Cartier-Bresson-like images of 1950s Vancouver are in vogue around the world .close to 100 archival photographs, beauty shots and ephemera such as Campbell’s soup cans with Cantonese/English/French labels AUTHOR: Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, BC, where he still resides, now in a house designed by Ron Thom. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, at the Emily Carr School for Art and Design; in Milan, Italy; and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991, and spoke to thousands of people entering the work force (or not) for the first time but confronted with the consequences of the excessive spending of their parents. It was in this book that the term McJob first appeared, referring to the only positions available during the economic recession of the early nineties, and much in demand by everyone, including highly educated, already jaded, apathetic twenty-somethings-the protagonists of his story. 138 images