dc.contributor.author | Patange, Poorna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-26 19:27:39 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-26 19:27:39 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-26 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2022-09-14 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18804 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Region of Waterloo is rapidly transforming along the route of the ION Light Rail Transit Line as expansions in the innovation industry and investments in public space enhance a new linear core. As the transit line facilitates greater density it increases socioeconomic inequity in terms of who can choose to be near newly connected public space. I argue that the co-produced public space environment of state-led gentrification and innovation is a means for the municipality to ossify and intensify existing structures of spatial and economic inequity. I ask how this transformed public space is presented and produced by the state and perceived by residents. I employ a mix of photography, mapping, and surveying to form a discursive relationship between public documents, in-place experiences, and the changing socio-economic geography of the Region of Waterloo. I find that the co-production of gentrification and innovation is fostered by provincial growth planning and an institutional response to post-industrial decline. In the network of public space more intensely connected by the new transit line, I document an aesthetic and spatial narrative of entrepreneurship that blurs the boundary between labour and life - foreclosing the political potential of these spaces. With this work, I extend the theorization of gentrification in relation to innovation labour—entrepreneurship—in the political economy of a post-industrial municipality. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.subject | LRT | en |
dc.subject | innovation | en |
dc.subject | gentrification | en |
dc.subject | public space | en |
dc.subject | urban sensorium | en |
dc.title | The Production of Space for Entrepreneurship: State-Led Gentrification & Innovation along the ION Light Rail Transit Line in the Region of Waterloo | en |
dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
dc.pending | false | |
uws-etd.degree.department | School of Architecture | en |
uws-etd.degree.discipline | Architecture | en |
uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
uws-etd.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
uws-etd.embargo.terms | 0 | en |
uws.contributor.advisor | Blackwell, Adrian | |
uws.contributor.advisor | Przybylski, Maya | |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Engineering | en |
uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
uws.published.country | Canada | en |
uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |