City Builders
The Maleks, The Olympics, and a Historic Gift to Vancouver
$71.06
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2024
Summary
Vancouver developers Peter and Shahram Malek have lost two great fortunes, both times at the hands of a hostile government. First, as young men in the flush of success, they were forced from Revolutionary Iran, leaving behind the massive construction and development business built by their father. Second, and more surprisingly, after rebuilding in Vancouver, to the point that they could deliver an internationally admired 80-acre, 1.5 million square-foot Athletes Village in time for the 2010 O…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781998841042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1998841049 |
| Author: | Richard Littlemore |
| Publisher: | Barlow Publishing |
| Imprint: | Barlow Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Richard Littlemore
Richard Littlemore is an author, journalist, speechwriter, and consultant who specializes in issues including urban planning and development, academic affairs, sustainability, and climate change. Recent books include: Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity, for Gordon Harris (with whom he is also writing the upcoming Urban Waste Land); The Fight for Beauty, and five other volumes for Westbank developer Ian Gillespie; and the award-winning Climate Cover-up, for former David Suzuki Foundation Chair James Hoggan.
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