Citations:Vancouver Special

Noun

 * 1993, Harold Kalman, Ron Phillips, & Robin Ward, Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide, page 202:
 * The 'Vancouver Specials ' are unique in that they quickly achieved widespread unpopularity for their boring flat fronts, boxy shapes, and low roofs.
 * 1998, Thomas A. Hutton, The Transformation of Canada's Pacific Metropolis: A Study of Vancouver, page 138:
 * In the 1960s and 1970s, German and Italian immigrants favoured the so-called “Vancouver specials,” box-shaped buildings with wrought-iron railings, aluminum-frame windows and stuccoed exteriors which, at the time, also generated some criticism.
 * 2006, David Russell, Deadly Lessons, page 97:
 * Vancouver Specials began to appear on the local architectural scene in the 1960s, mostly in the eastern parts of the city.
 * 2008, Samantha Amara, Vancouver Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About Vancouver and Were Going to Ask Anyway, unnumbered page:
 * Vancouver Specials are characterized by the absence of a basement and with a balcony railing across the front of the second floor of the home (but no balcony).
 * 2010, Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination, page 197:
 * In practice, the Vancouver Special proved adaptable to suit a range of domestic arrangements.
 * 2014, John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design, page 116:
 * There were campaigns waged by neighbourhood groups against boxy “Vancouver Specials” in the 1980s and highly eclectic “monster houses” in the 1990s.
 * 2014, Paul Stephens, "'The Dystopia of the Obsolete': Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia", in Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature (eds. Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, & Tara Lee), page 82:
 * In The Office for Soft Architecture, Vancouver becomes a kind of failed petit-bourgeois paradise, emblematized by “Vancouver Specials” and “leaky condos.”
 * 2018, Yasuko Thanh, "Burned", in Vancouver Noir, unnumbered page:
 * No Chinese designed these old seventies Vancouver Specials, that's for damn sure.
 * 2019, Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, & John Lorinc, House Divided: How the Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto's Housing Crisis, unnumbered page:
 * Our design proposal is a mash-up of the Vancouver Special with Brooklyn brownstones and Chinese courtyard houses, resulting in a typology we call 'Extra Special.'
 * 2021, Daniel Francis, Becoming Vancouver: A History, unnumbered page:
 * In the 1990s complaints about the Vancouver Specials faded, to be replaced by anger at the ubiquity of the so-called "monster home."