Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Keywords

Urban Spaces, Critical Legal Studies, Urban Redevelopment, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Municipal Zoning, Bylaw Enforcement, Urban Planning Policies

Abstract

Working towards an equality of differences of a city’s diverse cultures and subcultures requires an examination of the realities of how municipal and provincial legal frameworks governing the city space—such as urban planning policies, zoning decisions, and bylaw enforcement—play out within the microcosm of the everyday neighborhood, where conflicting life patterns must coexist even when they are at odds. Drawing on an urban legal anthropology and urban legal geography methodology assessing the realities of the life of subcultural communities in the city space, this paper’s objective is to explore potential paths towards an equitable regard and valuation of the different ways of knowing and being in the context of city redevelopment and cultural sustainability.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Publication Abbreviation

Western J Leg Studies

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