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Planning, policy and polarisation in Vancouver's downtown eastside

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Widely known as Vancouver's ‘skid road’ the Downtown Eastside struggles with the pressures of socio‐spatial polarisation. While the neighbourhood has experienced deepening poverty, widening disadvantage, the entrenchment of an open air drug market, epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and rising crime rates, it has also undergone extensive residential and commercial revitalisation. This paper explores, qualitatively, the City of Vancouver's policy and planning role in the spatial and temporal collision of both upgrading and downgrading within this single urban neighbourhood. Particular attention is paid to the unintended geographic and social impacts of municipal policy and the challenges faced by the city in attempting to address the conflicting expectations of community interests and the possibility of diametrically opposed, yet equally possible, neigh‐bourhood futures. The paper points to the necessity of continued research on the local dynamics, policy implications and scale of intra‐urban socio‐spatial polarisation.

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  • Heather A. Smith, 2003. "Planning, policy and polarisation in Vancouver's downtown eastside," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 94(4), pages 496-509, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:94:y:2003:i:4:p:496-509
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00276
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    1. Tremblay, Crystal & Gutberlet, Jutta & Peredo, Ana Maria, 2010. "United We Can: Resource recovery, place and social enterprise," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 54(7), pages 422-428.
    2. Richardson, Lindsey & Wood, Evan & Kerr, Thomas, 2013. "The impact of social, structural and physical environmental factors on transitions into employment among people who inject drugs," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 126-133.
    3. David Ley & Cory Dobson, 2008. "Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(12), pages 2471-2498, November.

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