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Geographies of Displacement in the Creative City: The Case of Liberty Village, Toronto

John Paul Catungal

Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Rm 5047, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada, catungalj{at}geog.utoronto.ca

Deborah Leslie

Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Rm 5047, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada, deborah.leslie{at}utoronto.ca

Yvonne Hii

School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 433-6333 Memorial Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada, yvonnehii{at}gmail.com

Creative industries are increasingly associated with employment, tourism and the attraction and retention of talent in economic development discourse. However, there is a need to foreground the interests involved in promoting the creative city and the political implications of such policies. This paper analyses new industry formation in Liberty Village—a cultural industry precinct in inner-city Toronto, Canada. The focus is on the place-making strategies at work in constructing Liberty Village. In particular, the paper explores a series of displacements associated with creative districts, focusing on three scales in particular—the level of the city, the neighbourhood and the precinct itself. An examination of these displacements foregrounds the contested nature of the creative city script.

Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 5-6, 1095-1114 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009103856
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