Industrial land use and economic policy created by the City of Vancouver
between 1968 and 1991 is analysed within a context of economic restructuring to
illustrate how these types of policies may be improved. Within this time frame,
the City of Vancouver had three distinct periods of policy development that were
largely delineated by local political and economic factors. The first period was
characterised by a liberal-based civic party in control of the local administration,
a healthy urban economy, and a post-industrial sentiment that did not support
the industrial community and resulted in a significant decrease in the city's
supply of industrial land. In the second period, an increasingly left of centre local
government was forced to contend with the poor economic conditions of the
early 1980s; consequently, the industrial sector and the economy as a whole
received considerable attention and support from the local government. The
third period was characterised by the re-birth of post-industrialism and a right of
centre administration with little interest in economic planning or maintaining an
industrial sector in the City of Vancouver. The main lessons to be drawn from
this policy analysis are (1) that the modern economy will continue to change
rapidly and generate significant consequences and challenges for civic
governments, (2) there are benefits to planning for the future rather than simply
accommodating change as it happens, (3) the short sighted agendas of
politicians need to be tempered by an assessment of the long term
consequences of policy development and implementation, (4) there needs to be co-operation between the region's numerous public bodies to ensure
complementary policy development across municipal boundaries, and (5)
governments need to be proactive and engage in economic planning during both
growth and recessionary economic periods in order to embrace new economic
opportunities as they arise, mitigate the negative consequences that change
often generates, and help produce strategic visions for planning purposes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/7955 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Logue, Scott |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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