Counter-narratives of gentrification: equity-based placemaking and cultural district planning in Little Jamaica, Toronto, Canada

Kelley A. McClinchey

Chapter 25 in Handbook on Tourism Gentrification, 2025, pp 464-481 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Heritage designation and tourism have been studied for some time often with polarising views on destruction or development. In some cases, heritage preservation can protect cities from rapid urban development and gentrification. In others, heritage designation attracts tourism-related development, negatively impacting the residential community. While recent work examines these processes in urban centres with historically significant built heritage, there is less attention on ethnically rich and diverse neighbourhoods within city spaces. Furthermore, research on the role of community stakeholders in placemaking in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods is recommended, especially those often absent in planning and development discourse. To contribute to this work, this chapter considers tourism as a complex action that is intricately bound with community placemaking as an opportunity to counter processes of gentrification rather than casting tourism as a causer of gentrification. The chapter analyses the planning process of a cultural districts planning approach in Toronto, Canada, with a focus on the neighbourhood of Little Jamaica and whether planned placemaking through community advocacy can alter the narrative of gentrification in these diverse urban spaces.

Keywords: Heritage conservation; Urban tourism; Gentrification; Placemaking; Community advocacy; Cultural planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327348
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