Publications

Lance Berelowitz is an award-winning writer. His work has been published in several magazines, newspapers, professional journals and guidebooks.

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His acclaimed book Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination, won the City of Vancouver Book Award and was shortlisted for the BC Book Prize. Lance was editor-in-chief of Vancouver’s successful 2010 Olympic Winter Games Bid Book submission to the International Olympic Committee.

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Debating Vancouver, The Tyee online magazine, February 2011 (with Matt Hern)

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Own Goal or National Triumph?, The Globe and Mail, June 2010

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Taking Back Vancouver’s Streets, The Vancouver Observer, February 2010

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Where’s Vancouver’s Next Public Square?, The Tyee online magazine, June 2009

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Architecture chapter author, Time Out Vancouver guide, 2008

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EcoDensity: Deconstructing the D Word, Granville magazine, 2007

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The Myth of Dense Vancouver, The Tyee online magazine, June 2006

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A Clear View of Vancouver, The Tyee online magazine interview, May 2005

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Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination, Douglas & McIntyre publisher, 2005, (winner 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award; shortlist BC Book Prize)

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Substance Over Spectacle, The Globe and Mail,
UBC Belkin Gallery exhibition review, 2005

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Vancouver’s New Neighbourhoods brochure, City of Vancouver Planning Department, 2003, (winner, PIBC Award of Excellence)

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2010 Olympic Winter Games Bid Book editor-in-chief,
Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, 2002

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Sidewalk Task Force final report, City of Vancouver, 2002

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Streetscape Design Standards manual, City of Vancouver, 2002

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Back to the Future: Relearning the Tradition of Civic Design, 
Plan Canada, January 2000

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Vancouver’s Urban Design brochure, City of Vancouver, 1999

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Reinventing Vancouver’s Waterfront, Stadt Bauwelt, Berlin, March 1998

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Yaletown on the Edge, The Canadian Architect, March 1995

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Vancouver, Design for a Living, Insite magazine, January 1995

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From Factor 15 to Feu d’Artifice, A/R/C journal, January 1995

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The Lions Gate Crossing, The Canadian Architect, October 1994

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After Apartheid: Designing the New South Africa, INSITE magazine, September 1994

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Doing It In Public introductory essay, Artropolis 93 Catalogue, October 1993

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Building a Presence, International Contract magazine, July/August 1993

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Remaking History, The Canadian Architect, July 1993

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Fitting a Square Peg into an Elliptical Hole, Competitions magazine, Kentucky, USA, Winter 1992/1993

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Highrise Anxiety, The Canadian Architect, January 1992

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Fade to Modern, Boulevard magazine, November 1990

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Goodbye, Mr. Jones, The Canadian Architect, July 1989

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Places at the Edge; Public Space as Platform for the Contemplation of the Natural Tableau, in Metropolitan Mutations, ed. Detlef Mertins, Little Brown publisher, 1989

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The Liveable City: Social Housing in Vancouver, The Canadian Architect, February 1988

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Urbanists in the Garden City, The Canadian Architect, May 1987

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Edge City: Vancouver, Repository of Form and Style, The Canadian Architect, October 1985 (First Prize Winner, Canadian Business Press Awards)