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Kuo, Marco

Vancouver’s Chinatown as an enclave of resilience has a century-long history of being a neighbourhood for entrepreneurship, leadership and comfort. The struggle to survive and resist displacement and alienation is masked with an Asiatic decoration. Chinatown’s aesthetic has played two roles - a background for nostalgia, reminding inhabitants of an Asiatic past and an identifier for outsiders to imagine a foreign and curious land. With parkades being relatively large monoliths in Chinatown, they hold the interior space and are a familial infrastructure for existing Chinatown life. This thesis begins with the story of Chinese migration to Canada, specifically Vancouver, and proposes a programmatic speculation in Joe Wai’s Chinatown Parkade and Plaza.

Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.); Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442113

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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