"Laissez faire has had its day": Land Use, Waste, and Propertied Improvement in Early Canadian Planning. (20th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wideman, Trevor J.
• Is Part Of: Planning theory & practice. Volume 20:Number 5(2019)
• Page Start: 689
• Page End: 710
• Publication Date: 2019-10-20
• Subjects: Land use -- property -- waste -- Canada -- Winnipeg -- Vancouver; City planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; 307.1205
• DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2019.1670351
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-9357

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Land use control has become a ubiquitous part of contemporary planning, but in early 20th century Canada such controls were under constant debate. I review these debates and interrogate planning-led anxieties around waste to show how planners used categories of waste to encourage land use control and to facilitate the improvement of people's lives and property. I think through the frictions that emerged when such planning ideas, mobilized through professional networks, touched down in the cities of Vancouver and Winnipeg. Land use regimes warrant increased scholarly attention: early conversations have contemporary relevance, as their discursive logics are foundational to modern methods of land use control.