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The planned destruction of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada since c.1900

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  • Domenic Vitiello
  • Zoe Blickenderfer

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Unlike virtually all other old immigrant enclaves in North American cities, the historic downtown Chinatowns of big cities in the United States and Canada largely survive, though not for lack of plans to destroy them. City Beautiful era plans, development projects, and other public and private interventions displaced or sought to eradicate Chinatowns, from Los Angeles to Victoria to Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Urban renewal era projects destroyed large portions of many Chinatowns, and some entirely. This article traces these broad patterns and trends of planned and realized destruction and preservation across 15 of the major cities in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.

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  • Domenic Vitiello & Zoe Blickenderfer, 2020. "The planned destruction of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada since c.1900," Planning Perspectives, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 143-168, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rppexx:v:35:y:2020:i:1:p:143-168
    DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2018.1515653
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