期刊名称：Trail Six: An Undergraduate Journal of Geography
印刷版ISSN：1916-0747
出版年度：2012
卷号：6
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：Geography Students' Association
摘要：Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, is undergoing significant social and economic change. Many believe that the Woodward’s redevelopment project is the key to revitalizing the neighbourhood by encouraging capital (re)investment. I argue through a photo essay that the Woodward’s redevelopment must be understood as a landscape of class power. The state and private capital are simultaneously attempting to gentrify the neighbourhood through the embourgeoisement of the built environment. The aestheticized landscape of advanced capitalism, characterized by spaces of conspicuous consumption, is articulated both materially and symbolically. The Woodward’s landscape privileges the new urban middle class, by materially and discursively erasing working class histories and struggles in this neighbourhood. This redevelopment is perhaps Vancouver’s most striking example of flexible accumulation at work – a process which is occurring globally in cities through landscape aestheticization and the middle class colonization of poor and working class neighbourhoods.
