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“Laissez faire has had its day”: Land Use, Waste, and Propertied Improvement in Early Canadian Planning

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  • Trevor J. Wideman

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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.

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  • Trevor J. Wideman, 2019. "“Laissez faire has had its day”: Land Use, Waste, and Propertied Improvement in Early Canadian Planning," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(5), pages 689-710, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:20:y:2019:i:5:p:689-710
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2019.1670351
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