City of Glass - Douglas Coupland's Vancouver

I was quite surprised when this book arrived last Spring, because, compared to "Jakarta: Inside Out" the photographs have a more muted style and they are rather less prominent in the layout. Nevertheless, I decided that it was worth looking at in some detail, and, in fact, I found that the book was entertaining, as well as providing some interesting background to the Jakarta book.
The author, Douglas Coupland, explains on the cover that his purpose is to explain to visitors what Vancouver feels like to someone who lives there. The 50 or so topics are arranged alphabetically, each one a humorous article on the idiosyncrasies of the city or its people, for example, the social effect of being so close to the US border, the stockpiles of sulphur stacked in yellow mounds in the harbor. There are photographs linked to every topic, mainly photographed specially by Una Knox, an artist and photographer who divides her time between Vancouver and London.
Douglas Coupland is a Vancouver resident author known for his pithy and prescient commentary on modern life (according to the brief description of the book on Amazon UK website). He is best known for his novels, but he has published writing of all sorts. This particular book seems to have been very succesful, so much so that a new edition was published at the end of 2010.
In an interview with Linda Richards of January magazine in 2001, Coupland explained how the book layout originated. "He was working with a designer Judith Steepman on a show catalogue for an exhibition and he thought that the "visual type vernacular" style used in the catalogue wold be just right for the Vancouver book". Interestingly, Richards also commented that "whilst none of the photographs are by fellow-Vancouverite, Jeff Wall, whose flatly lit and unlovely outdoor scenes have defined an international photographic movement, but Wall's influence can be felt, nonetheless".
I noted two particular characteristics of the photographs. Firstly, the photographer uses the framing to make the people anonymous in quite a number of photos. Second, she uses primary colours in some of the compositions e.g. food and shops. The book uses a layout of two colour pages followed by two black and white pictures, and the saturated colours on the colour pages seem that much more intense as a result. In the article by Linda Richards, she comments that "Knox's work, like Coupland's own is understated and darkly humorous. That is to say in both cases, the humour is deep and very much there, but you might have to work a bit to find it". I think this is correct, there is some complexity underlying the apparent simplicity. I found various links to Knox's other artistic work, but no other photography.