Situating the New Economy: Contingencies of Regeneration and Dislocation in Vancouver's Inner City

Trevor Barnes and Thomas Hutton
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Trevor Barnes: Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z2, tbarnes@geog.ubc.ca
Thomas Hutton: Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 227-1933 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z2, thutton@interchange.ubc.ca

Urban Studies, 2009, vol. 46, issue 5-6, 1247-1269

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to make an argument about the importance of geographical context and contingency in the emergence of the new economy within the inner city. Using a case study of Vancouver, it is suggested, first, that its new economy has emerged precisely out of the peculiar trajectory of the city and is bound up with a staples economy, branch plant corporate offices, transnationalism, and mega-project orientation. Secondly, to illustrate the importance of situation and site, the paper focuses on two of Vancouver's inner-city locales: Yaletown, on the margins of the Downtown South, a former industrial and warehousing district now regarded as the epicentre of Vancouver's new economy; and Victory Square, the former commercial heart of the early Vancouver, for many years experiencing disinvestment and decline, but now on the cusp of a major revitalisation which threatens to displace long-established social cohorts.

Date: 2009
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