Sexuality and the city: exploring gaybourhoods and the urban village form in Vancouver, BC.
| dc.contributor.author | Borbridge, Richard | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Milgrom, Richard (City Planning) Millward, Liz (Women's Studies) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Blake, Sheri (City Planning) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-01-03T15:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-01-03T15:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-03T15:50:40Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | City Planning | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of City Planning (M.C.P.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A case study of Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood examines the cultural, structural, economic and political impacts of a glbtt (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirited) community and a gay urban village on its city. This work also queries the role of municipal government in the regulation and maintenance of the social composition and identity of a neighbourhood. Finally, the future of gay urban villages is discussed as their role in promoting solidarity and safety transitions toward a commercial and nodal one. This research involved three local key informant interviews and nine community residents who participated as photographers in a community visual analysis. Results unveiled a neighbourhood intrinsically well suited to serving a transient gay male community with an increasing dispersion of the identifying demographic. For the foreseeable future the significance of the Davie Village in the socio-sexual landscape of Vancouver appears secure through the nodal nature of gay retail, bars and services, reinforced by business interests. As an urban typology supporting a comparatively young glbtt culture, the gay urban village plays a unique role in the city, providing spaces of experimentation and invention — a stage for new systems of cultural (ex)change to emerge. | en |
| dc.description.note | October 2007 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 6535725 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2973 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | urban village | en |
| dc.subject | gay | en |
| dc.subject | West End | en |
| dc.subject | photography | en |
| dc.subject | metaspace | en |
| dc.subject | neighbourhood change | en |
| dc.subject | urban design | en |
| dc.subject | Vancouver | en |
| dc.title | Sexuality and the city: exploring gaybourhoods and the urban village form in Vancouver, BC. | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |