THE CANADIAN CITY

Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian citiesamong others He has walked measured and sketched their streets squares and places scanned their horizons probed the relationships between structures land and landscape with unprecedented energy More significantly he has reacted to the negative effect that all the busy business of urban development is having on our daily lives and he has had the courage to offer concrete remedial plans If as Kemble quoting Ruskin reminds us Architecture is the mother of the arts then time spent with his bold imaginative idiosyncratic view of the making and unmaking of citiesdrawn with passionate hindsight and compassionate foresightwill be a moving and healing experience Through the beckoning text of The Canadian City and its 144 illustrations we will come to know the map of our own country and city as never before The long shadow cast by this knowledge will make us more aware travellers abroad too Principles of city living and city building will accompany us everywhere with an unsuspecting vividness There is only a short step from Roger Kembles studio to the world