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dc.contributor.authorWierzba, Tomasz
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-30T13:53:20Z
dc.date.available2014-10-30T13:53:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-30
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/5802
dc.description.abstractThe City of St. Catharines, located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, is Niagara Region's only major urban node. Like many small/medium-sized cities in Canada and abroad, the city experienced a rapid decline of large-scale manufacturing in the 1990s. In a renewed attempt to recover from this economic depression, and spurred by Provincial policy, the City implemented the Downtown Creative Cluster Master Plan (DCCMP) in 2008. In this thesis I conduct a discourse analysis of the DCCMP. My analysis indicates that DCCMP is shaped by neoliberal economic development paradigms. As such it is designed to restructure the downtown into a creative cluster by attracting developers/investors and appealing to the interests, tastes, and desires of middle-class consumers and creatives. I illustrate that this competitive city approach to urban planning has a questionable track record, and has been shown to result in retail and residential gentrification and displacement.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectRevitalizationen_US
dc.subjectCreative Clusteren_US
dc.subjectDowntown St. Catharinesen_US
dc.subjectPlanningen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Developmenten_US
dc.titleTransforming Downtown St. Catharines into a Creative Clusteren_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.embargo.termsNoneen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-08-04T03:10:42Z


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