“A Capital Experience:” National Urban Renewal, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

This thesis investigates both Keynesian and neoliberal urbanism on LeBreton Flats, a mixed working-class district deemed a “blighted” slum unfit for a national capital. By studying the time-delayed embourgeoisement of the Flats, this study considers the production of the modern capital as an “event”...

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Main Author: Picton, Roger M.
Other Authors: Hackworth, Jason
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19210