Transforming Downtown St. Catharines into a Creative Cluster
dc.contributor.author | Wierzba, Tomasz | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-30T13:53:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-30T13:53:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-10-30 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10464/5802 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brock University | en_US |
dc.subject | Revitalization | en_US |
dc.subject | Creative Cluster | en_US |
dc.subject | Downtown St. Catharines | en_US |
dc.subject | Planning | en_US |
dc.subject | Economic Development | en_US |
dc.title | Transforming Downtown St. Catharines into a Creative Cluster | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.degree.name | M.A. Geography | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Geography | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Faculty of Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.embargo.terms | None | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-04T03:10:42Z |