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Preserving the "glory of the past" : the Native Daughters of British Columbia and the construction of pioneer history in the Hastings Mill MuseumEllis, Cassidy Rose 11 1900 (has links)
In 1929 the old Hastings Mill Store building was towed by scow from
Vancouver's inner harbour to its present location near Spanish Banks in Point Grey. In
the following two years, the Native Daughters of British Columbia transformed the old
building in to a museum to preserve historical relics of the early days of Vancouver.
Their museum recounted pioneer histories of journey to, and settlement in, British
Columbia in order to celebrate European development of the region, promote
Vancouver's connection with the British Empire, and encourage future economic growth
in the city.
Today, the Native Daughters continue to operate this quirky and curious museum.
Their exclusive tale of European pioneer history has been preserved in its original form,
untouched by decades of museological change and post-colonial critique of cultural
representation. The thesis uses the Hastings Mill Museum as a case study in heritage
preservation in British Columbia. It claims that the museum itself is an artifact. It is a
material remnant of an important movement in local history when such groups as the
Native Daughters used the preservation of the past to address contemporary political and
social concerns.
Representing an idealized pioneer past provided an important source of political
and social power for the Native Daughters. Through the Hastings Mill Museum, the
Native Daughters helped its members - and the province's community of native-born,
Anglo-European - affirm their status as a genealogical and historical elite. The Native
Daughters used a variant of the North American "pioneer myth," a nostalgic
interpretation of local history that distilled the city's history into a simple narrative of
anglo-European settlement, sacrifice and development, to document their claim to the
region's political, institutional, and economic power. Their use of heritage preservation
as a source of power was shaped by gender. The Daughters used their position as
"guardians" and "nurturers" of the region's heritage in order to promote and strengthen
the position of their community of white, native-born British Columbians.
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Making happyland : the spectacularization and purification of downtown VancouveTodd, Kamala 05 1900 (has links)
Downtown Vancouver is becoming a spectacular place. Reflecting dominant trends found in
many restructuring Canadian cities, its landscape has become increasingly aestheticized,
privatized, consumption-based, and regulated. Since the late-1960s, boosters have worked to
strengthen Vancouver's position in the international scene by staging it as a world class city,
an inviting and exciting destination. To attract desired publics, downtown has been framed as
the alluring gateway, the spectacular centre, the glittering jewel of Vancouver. Making this
convivial centre—which I call Happyland—has involved remaking and reimaging downtown
to 'upgrade' its perceived 'decay'. Like many North American central cities in the 1960s,
with the advent of suburbanization and general economic decline, downtown Vancouver's
role as the major shopping and entertainment centre of 'respectable' citizens seriously
waned. New landscapes took shape as into the marginalizing spaces new publics made their
places and inscribed their cultures. Parts of downtown became widely stigmatized as
degraded and neglected, as taken over by 'undesirables'. Thus, making Happyland has
largely been about 'civilizing' downtown—involving not only dramatic redevelopment, but
also heavy marketing and increased policing.
I read the remaking of downtown—Robson and Granville Streets in particular—by
analyzing the changing landscape, local media, City decisions, place marketing, and the
voices of various actors from multiple sources, including personal interviews. While the
dominant narrative celebrates an urban renaissance, I argue that downtown is being purified,
whereby a tightly scripted order is being fixed in which certain people, cultures, signs are
'out of place' and subjected to increasing levels of regulation. In particular, street youth have
been identified as 'pests' who 'spoil' the desired clean, ordered, happy image. I see the demonization of street youth as reflecting wider relations of power. I argue that the narrative
of Happyland, the dominant public culture being fixed downtown excludes other narratives,
experiences, visions. Street youth narratives—from personal interviews and their own
writings in a local 'zine—are testimony of this diversity. I argue that for this city and society
to be truly inclusive and livable, as the rhetoric claims, such voices of citizens have to be
given space and validity.
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Back to the future : some ideas for the economic rejuvenation of Victory SquareBennett, Paul Mackenzie 05 1900 (has links)
The thesis analyzes policies and programs appropriate in responding to the decline of
the Victory Square Concept Planning Area, which was once at the heart of Vancouver.
This topic is important in light of similar situations throughout North America. Victory
Square is located within the larger Downtown Eastside, whose fractious political climate
may reduce the likelihood of success in future community undertakings. The thesis
reviews relevant economic theory and the merits and methods of public sector
intervention. Questions are raised as to how seriously the City has taken the problems
of the Square area from an historical perspective, how effective its current policies are
and whether the VSCPA is a legitimate planning area. A Community Economic
Development approach is advocated due to the shortcomings of "traditional strategies.
Vancouver's unique post-Fordist economy has encouraged the growth of the Victory
Square Concept Planning Area's creative design sector, which has been accompanied
by an increase in cultural and educational institutions. In order to increase retail activity,
three strategies are available. Retailing is important not only for individual
entrepreneurs and potential employees but because it also businesses and ancillary
services, while serving the increasingly integrated production system. A larger
population would include some higher-income singles, more working women and
career-oriented professionals/managers with greater disposable incomes and pursuit of
leisure and cultural activities. The author advocates legalization of illegal and lower-rent
artists lofts, the encouragement of residential development and heritage conversion as
well as limited tourism. Although heritage conservation activities are often viewed as
precursors to gentrification and cost benefit evidence is non-conclusive, it can create
youth employment and a diversity of social and mixed-income housing and commercial
space. The main issue for heritage property developers is whether the value of a
structure after rehabilitation exceeds the hard, soft and rent-up costs of acquisition,
rehabilitation, operation and disposition. While increased economic activity will
hopefully raise the income of all local residents, this cannot be assumed nor would
such change be immediate. Effective public policy-making, partnerships and private
sector initiatives should be mobilized to restore and renovate a judicious mix of heritage
structures into a viable combination of mixed-residential, retailing, office and public
space, while striving to maintain services and accommodation for the low-income
population.
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Preserving the "glory of the past" : the Native Daughters of British Columbia and the construction of pioneer history in the Hastings Mill MuseumEllis, Cassidy Rose 11 1900 (has links)
In 1929 the old Hastings Mill Store building was towed by scow from
Vancouver's inner harbour to its present location near Spanish Banks in Point Grey. In
the following two years, the Native Daughters of British Columbia transformed the old
building in to a museum to preserve historical relics of the early days of Vancouver.
Their museum recounted pioneer histories of journey to, and settlement in, British
Columbia in order to celebrate European development of the region, promote
Vancouver's connection with the British Empire, and encourage future economic growth
in the city.
Today, the Native Daughters continue to operate this quirky and curious museum.
Their exclusive tale of European pioneer history has been preserved in its original form,
untouched by decades of museological change and post-colonial critique of cultural
representation. The thesis uses the Hastings Mill Museum as a case study in heritage
preservation in British Columbia. It claims that the museum itself is an artifact. It is a
material remnant of an important movement in local history when such groups as the
Native Daughters used the preservation of the past to address contemporary political and
social concerns.
Representing an idealized pioneer past provided an important source of political
and social power for the Native Daughters. Through the Hastings Mill Museum, the
Native Daughters helped its members - and the province's community of native-born,
Anglo-European - affirm their status as a genealogical and historical elite. The Native
Daughters used a variant of the North American "pioneer myth," a nostalgic
interpretation of local history that distilled the city's history into a simple narrative of
anglo-European settlement, sacrifice and development, to document their claim to the
region's political, institutional, and economic power. Their use of heritage preservation
as a source of power was shaped by gender. The Daughters used their position as
"guardians" and "nurturers" of the region's heritage in order to promote and strengthen
the position of their community of white, native-born British Columbians. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
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Towards common ground : sustainable development in Southeast False CreekIrwin, John Jacob Michael 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis focuses on communicative participation processes and the mutual
understanding that can occur amongst participants. This mutual understanding can often
lead to better sustainability planning outcomes. It analyzes both the process and the
outcomes of the process through a case study. The principle research question addressed
is: does communicative participation in development processes, by a broad range of
interests, contribute to social, environmental, and economic sustainability?
The research instruments include: action research conducted by the author in the
Southeast False Creek Model Sustainable Community Planning Process case study,
which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; twenty qualitative interviews
with the members of a policy Advisory Group, staff of the local civic government, and
political representatives; and analysis of the key planning documents generated by the
process and other contextual documentation. The findings from the action research are
presented, followed by the qualitative interview findings. These two types of results
(which were conducted independently of each other) were then compared, analyzed, and
contrasted with the literature in an iterative manner.
The literature consulted includes: communicative action, communicative action in
planning, public participation, sustainable development and sustainable urban
development (ecological, social, and economic). Two sets of criteria, one for the process
and the other for the outcome, were derived from the literature review.
The research findings indicate that this case study is an example of a reasonably good
communicative participation process that was deep and long-term, but did not involve the
broader community as well as it could have. The analysis concludes, however, that power
played a significant role in this case study. This highlights the need for communicative
action theory in planning to be supplemented, extended, and revised. Communicative
action theory could be strengthened by being supplemented by political economic theory,
progressive planning theory, mobilization theory, and postmodern trans-cultural planning
theory.
The process outcome, the policy for Southeast False Creek, was found to make
marked progress towards ecological sustainability, and marginal movement towards
economic sustainability. The policy was found to be quite lacking in terms of social
sustainability, although it was given more consideration than in previous development
policy in Vancouver. A lack of focus on social sustainability was found in the process,
and this was reflected in the policy. Although the sustainability policy was found to be
quite weak overall, it did lead towards greater sustainable urban development in
Vancouver, and increased awareness about sustainability in the development policy
community.
This thesis makes a significant contribution to communicative action theory by
analyzing a case study that put this theory into practice. It may also improve planning
practice by recommending ways to improve communicative participation processes. / Science, Faculty of / Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for / Graduate
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Infrastructure, production, and the public realmTrumble, Anne R. 11 1900 (has links)
This project posits the need for a
design approach to the use of urban
sub-infrastructural spaces as public
space. The potential held within
these neglected parts of the city
presents opportunities for the integration
of architecture and landscape.
The site beneath the infrastructure
of the downtown Granville Bridge
is one of the last remaining undeveloped
parts of downtown False
Creek. Surrounded by extreme residential
density, the site is formed by
the infrastructure creating a unique
space unlike any other in the city.
Artists involved in small scale industrial
production such as textile, fashion,
film, and furniture, rely on the city for
survival. The design, prototype, production,
display, consumption, and
involvement of these activities within
the public realm are important components
to the identity and vigor of
any metropolitan city.
This project will explore, capture, and
capitalize on the unique landscape
qualities of partial enclosure provided
by the bridge structure. This
existing condition provides a spatial
quality that is suggestive of opportunities
for the integration of interior
and exterior functions. With appropriate
design intervention this place
can become a unique public space
while fulfilling the need for a production
and entertainment space in
downtown Vancouver / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate
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Making happyland : the spectacularization and purification of downtown VancouveTodd, Kamala 05 1900 (has links)
Downtown Vancouver is becoming a spectacular place. Reflecting dominant trends found in
many restructuring Canadian cities, its landscape has become increasingly aestheticized,
privatized, consumption-based, and regulated. Since the late-1960s, boosters have worked to
strengthen Vancouver's position in the international scene by staging it as a world class city,
an inviting and exciting destination. To attract desired publics, downtown has been framed as
the alluring gateway, the spectacular centre, the glittering jewel of Vancouver. Making this
convivial centre—which I call Happyland—has involved remaking and reimaging downtown
to 'upgrade' its perceived 'decay'. Like many North American central cities in the 1960s,
with the advent of suburbanization and general economic decline, downtown Vancouver's
role as the major shopping and entertainment centre of 'respectable' citizens seriously
waned. New landscapes took shape as into the marginalizing spaces new publics made their
places and inscribed their cultures. Parts of downtown became widely stigmatized as
degraded and neglected, as taken over by 'undesirables'. Thus, making Happyland has
largely been about 'civilizing' downtown—involving not only dramatic redevelopment, but
also heavy marketing and increased policing.
I read the remaking of downtown—Robson and Granville Streets in particular—by
analyzing the changing landscape, local media, City decisions, place marketing, and the
voices of various actors from multiple sources, including personal interviews. While the
dominant narrative celebrates an urban renaissance, I argue that downtown is being purified,
whereby a tightly scripted order is being fixed in which certain people, cultures, signs are
'out of place' and subjected to increasing levels of regulation. In particular, street youth have
been identified as 'pests' who 'spoil' the desired clean, ordered, happy image. I see the demonization of street youth as reflecting wider relations of power. I argue that the narrative
of Happyland, the dominant public culture being fixed downtown excludes other narratives,
experiences, visions. Street youth narratives—from personal interviews and their own
writings in a local 'zine—are testimony of this diversity. I argue that for this city and society
to be truly inclusive and livable, as the rhetoric claims, such voices of citizens have to be
given space and validity. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate
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Back to the future : some ideas for the economic rejuvenation of Victory SquareBennett, Paul Mackenzie 05 1900 (has links)
The thesis analyzes policies and programs appropriate in responding to the decline of
the Victory Square Concept Planning Area, which was once at the heart of Vancouver.
This topic is important in light of similar situations throughout North America. Victory
Square is located within the larger Downtown Eastside, whose fractious political climate
may reduce the likelihood of success in future community undertakings. The thesis
reviews relevant economic theory and the merits and methods of public sector
intervention. Questions are raised as to how seriously the City has taken the problems
of the Square area from an historical perspective, how effective its current policies are
and whether the VSCPA is a legitimate planning area. A Community Economic
Development approach is advocated due to the shortcomings of "traditional strategies.
Vancouver's unique post-Fordist economy has encouraged the growth of the Victory
Square Concept Planning Area's creative design sector, which has been accompanied
by an increase in cultural and educational institutions. In order to increase retail activity,
three strategies are available. Retailing is important not only for individual
entrepreneurs and potential employees but because it also businesses and ancillary
services, while serving the increasingly integrated production system. A larger
population would include some higher-income singles, more working women and
career-oriented professionals/managers with greater disposable incomes and pursuit of
leisure and cultural activities. The author advocates legalization of illegal and lower-rent
artists lofts, the encouragement of residential development and heritage conversion as
well as limited tourism. Although heritage conservation activities are often viewed as
precursors to gentrification and cost benefit evidence is non-conclusive, it can create
youth employment and a diversity of social and mixed-income housing and commercial
space. The main issue for heritage property developers is whether the value of a
structure after rehabilitation exceeds the hard, soft and rent-up costs of acquisition,
rehabilitation, operation and disposition. While increased economic activity will
hopefully raise the income of all local residents, this cannot be assumed nor would
such change be immediate. Effective public policy-making, partnerships and private
sector initiatives should be mobilized to restore and renovate a judicious mix of heritage
structures into a viable combination of mixed-residential, retailing, office and public
space, while striving to maintain services and accommodation for the low-income
population. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate
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Theatre Under the Stars : the Hilker yearsSutherland, Richard 11 1900 (has links)
For nearly a quarter-century, from 1940 through 1963, Vancouver’s Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) mounted annual summer seasons of musical theatre in Malkin Bowl, a converted bandshell in Stanley Park. By the early 1950s, TUTS, now a fully-professional company, had become an enormous popular and financial success, attracting crowds of up to 25,000 per week. For various reasons, the company closed down in 1963, yet so ingrained in Vancouver's cultural fabric had TUTS become, that in 1980 an amateur organization re-appropriated the name for its own summer musical productions in Malkin Bowl. Despite its acknowledged importance in Canadian theatre history, very little research has been devoted to this remarkable company. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to document the early history of TUTS, in particular the years 1940 through 1949 when TUTS was directly funded by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and dominated by the colourful, if somewhat erratic, personality of its general manager, Gordon Hilker. Material for the thesis was obtained primarily through sources located at the City of Vancouver Archives, supplemented by newspaper clippings and by personal interviews. Archival matter included programs, handbills, photographs, and Park Board records, especially minute books and correspondence files. This study will examine the circumstances leading to the creation and subsequent development of TUTS as a civic enterprise. Although the work is designed to be comprehensive, certain topics receive special attention: the nature of the programming; the evolution and training of Canadian talent; the development of a professional company; political factionalism in the elected Park Board; and the relationship between Hilker and the Park Board which varied from mutual admiration to mutual loathing. Particularly analyzed are the pivotal events of 1949 that resulted in a complete change of ownership and management.
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Social media enter the stadium : a case study on the political economy of media at the 2010 Winter OlympicsRitchie, Leanne 11 July 2011 (has links)
Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Bahktinian notion of intertextuality to examine how Canadian media discursively constructed social media users and their sharing of the images, video, and opinions following the tragedy. The results show traditional media discursively constructed social media as outsiders, separate from the audience, and further argued they need to follow traditional media norms in order to be responsible citizens. In considering this discursive construction within the political economy of traditional media, it is suggested that one tactic employed is the creation of flak, which attempts to discredit what it opposes. Traditional media discourse, sometimes itself the target of flak, here uses flak against social media which are impinging on the political economy of the traditional media.
Keywords: audience, critical discourse, flak, intertextuality, Olympics, political economy, social media, traditional media
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