“Laissez faire has had its day”: Land Use, Waste, and Propertied Improvement in Early Canadian Planning

Trevor J. Wideman

Planning Theory & Practice, 2019, vol. 20, issue 5, 689-710

Abstract: Land use control has become a ubiquitous part of contemporary planning, but in early 20th century Canada such controls were under constant debate. I review these debates and interrogate planning-led anxieties around waste to show how planners used categories of waste to encourage land use control and to facilitate the improvement of people’s lives and property. I think through the frictions that emerged when such planning ideas, mobilized through professional networks, touched down in the cities of Vancouver and Winnipeg. Land use regimes warrant increased scholarly attention: early conversations have contemporary relevance, as their discursive logics are foundational to modern methods of land use control.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2019.1670351

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