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作者

Trevor J. Wideman

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue6,P.865-892

语言

英文

关键字

Land use,planning,property,waste,Winnipeg,Canada

作者单位

Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University , Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

摘要

Planning, in the context of the liberal democratic state, has long been concerned with the ordering and improvement of landed property toward a “highest and best use.” In this paper, I look to early 20th century planning in Canada – specifically in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba – to interrogate questions of land use in relation to planning and property. I connect land use planning to property by looking at how ideologies of waste, deployed by planners at the national scale to evaluate people and land and motivate rationalistic land use control, touched down in 1930s Winnipeg. I scrutinize if and how Winnipeg officials acted upon waste within planning schemes of improvement. Ultimately, I show that powerful professional planning discourses around the implementation of scientific order and the avoidance of waste were taken up selectively by Winnipeg officials in the interests of maintaining a propertied landscape. Private property, in Winnipeg, trumped planning. KEYWORDS: Land useplanningpropertywasteWinnipegCanada Acknowledgments The labor that went into this article took place on Treaty 1 Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew. Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, the Birthplace of the Métis Nation and the Heart of the Métis Nation Homeland (a.k.a. Winnipeg, Canada); and on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada). The paper could not have been written without the expert guidance of archivists Martin Comeau and Jody Baltiessen at the City of Winnipeg Archives, and Rachel Mills at the Archives of the Province of Manitoba, all of whom showed immense generosity and patience with me as I tried to piece together some fragments of early 20th century Winnipeg planning. Thanks to Dr. Annika Airas and others who were able to comment on early drafts of this paper, and much appreciation to the Place + Space Collective for ongoing friendship and solidarity. Thanks also to Nick Lombardo and the participants of the “Law and Land Use: Property, Planning and the Control of Urban Space” sessions at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, in New Orleans, LA for their thoughts, as well as those who took the time to comment on this paper at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in Winnipeg. Finally, thanks to the anonymous reviewers who helped me in working through the ideas in this paper. All of your insights are very much appreciated, and the paper is better for it. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.