The planned destruction of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada since c.1900

Domenic Vitiello and Zoe Blickenderfer

Planning Perspectives, 2020, vol. 35, issue 1, 143-168

Abstract: Unlike virtually all other old immigrant enclaves in North American cities, the historic downtown Chinatowns of big cities in the United States and Canada largely survive, though not for lack of plans to destroy them. City Beautiful era plans, development projects, and other public and private interventions displaced or sought to eradicate Chinatowns, from Los Angeles to Victoria to Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Urban renewal era projects destroyed large portions of many Chinatowns, and some entirely. This article traces these broad patterns and trends of planned and realized destruction and preservation across 15 of the major cities in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2018.1515653

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