UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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The Imaginary Colliery Project: The Future of Tourism in Crowsnest Pass
Full text linkThis work specifically examines a transition from resource based industries to a tourism economy in the Crowsnest Pass. The Imaginary Colliery Project proposal complicates this movement from mining to tourism and suggests that authentic histories, architecture and culture can be fabricated to suit the necessities of tourist industries
Hanging Planning’s Dirty Laundry
Full text linkDucking under the little cards attached to a string tied taut between a tree and the Landscape Architecture building, a young white man asks, "What is this? What are you guys doing?" He stops to read the card aloud
Wild Relics in an Urban Landscape: A Look at Raccoon Representations in Newspaper Media
Full text linkAs global urbanization gains momentum, human experience is increasingly restricted to dense urban environments; a new urban human looks out through the window, rejecting and inviting the "wild" in complex ways. This paper analyzes a sampling of newspaper articles that probe the dimensions of the urban wild by following the media intersection between humans and a commonly encountered wild animal, the raccoon. This intersection is typical of many urban human-wildlife interactions in the sense that it is characterized by a fierce ambivalence (Griffiths, Poulter, & Sibley, 2000). The human-raccoon relationship, however, captures this ambivalence in a way not seen with other urban wildlife. Conflicted feelings about raccoons challenge the psychic boundaries of both human and animal domesticity in an urban context
Equity and Justice in High Demand: 66 Wheeler at the OMB
Full text linkThe profession of urban and regional planning often understands itself as one of the crown disciplines, one that has higher societal aspirations, one that can solve the "big problems" of today's world through spatial and policy interventions. Its ideal is based on what are portrayed as good planning principles: the just and equal distribution of wealth, goods and services. The practice, however, is often far off from its ideal. What is to be blamed for this
Armistice
Full text linkTwo by two they board the arknails clacking against the wooden planktails waggin
