Postmodern Urban Spaces: A City Tour

Dr. David Ley, Professor of Urban Geography at UBC, will take us through Vancouver’s downtown and inner city districts and will emphasize the changing social values of postmodern culture as these are expressed and reproduced in the urban landscape. He will illustrate various views and challenges of the postmodern city.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to read cities by their urban landscape, using Vancouver as a model. The concepts of postmodernity and pluralism will be given concrete form as we study the development of various urban spaces, and will enable us to gain insight into the city as a mission field.

The charter bus will begin at Regent College and will travel through Westside neighbourhoods to Downtown, through Gastown, the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Granville Island, Fairview Slopes, Shaughnessy, Oakridge, and then return to Regent.

 

David Ley
Dr. David Ley holds a Canada Research Chair of Geography at UBC, and is a current Regent Board member. He has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Washington. His current research is concerned with the impacts and experiences of immigration in the city. In this capacity he is the UBC Director of the Metropolis Project, a federally funded program of immigration research. His most recent books include The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State (with S. Hasson) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), and Place/ Culture/Representation, co edited with J. Duncan (London: Rutledge, 1993).

Details

Date & Time

Saturday, July 19, 9:30 am–1:00 pm. Please meet in the College Atrium at 9:00 am.

Cost

Cost: $32 (CDN)/person, by cash, credit card or cheque payable to Regent College. Payment includes a $5/person non-refundable registration fee. Requests for cancellation must be submitted to the Student Services desk (available through Regent reception 604.224.3245) by noon on Thursday, July 17. No refunds are available after this date.

Registration

There are only 45 spaces available. Full payment must be received in order to reserve a space on the bus. Please register by mail, by fax or in person at Regent's Student Services desk (it is not possible to register by by phone or email). Be sure to sign-up early since space is limited and the tour is popular!

DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM (in pdf format)