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Making Space in Vancouver's East End from Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement
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New Poverty DiscourseSocial GeographyEducationEast EndSocial SciencesUneven DevelopmentUrban SocietyPovertyUrban HistoryGeopoliticsPublic PolicyVancouver AgreementNew Poverty MentalityUrban GeographyUrban DesignPolitical GeographySociologyLeonard MarshBritish ColumbiaUrban Social JusticeUrban SpaceSpatial Politics
In Canada, the new millennium saw the rise of a new poverty mentality captured in the discourse of “complexity” that signalled the prevalence of “wicked” problems out of reach from bureaucratically ordered welfare strategies that dominated in post-World War II. This complexity could only be addressed, it was now assumed, by acknowledging a seemingly hitherto hidden facet of poverty – its spatial dimension, and in particular, its local, neighbourhood-level spaces. The aim of this paper is to unsettle the taken-for-grantedness of this new poverty discourse by examining transformations in how space has figured into poverty programs in the east end of Vancouver, British Columbia, with a major focus on the Grandview-Woodland district.