The Vancouver Parallel to the Changes in Paris

i wonder if, just for an audience who's likely unaware of the book and of the project, if you could help plain what it is. What these essays sought to do, generally speaking, was find a way to energetically describe and document the changing urban fabric of the city of vancouver. A i had been very interested in and influenced by the work of the french documentary photographer eugene age. And a age was documenting a changing paris, a changing because of housman's anization projects that ended in am 18 70, i think. The kind of v Vancouver parallel to this, this disappearance the vumbai parallel to the changes in paris that ge was responding to