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Development Versus Preservation Interests In The Making Of A Music City: A Case Study Of Select Iconic Toronto Music Venues And The Treatment Of Their Intangible Cultural Heritage Value, Sara Gwendolyn Ross
Development Versus Preservation Interests In The Making Of A Music City: A Case Study Of Select Iconic Toronto Music Venues And The Treatment Of Their Intangible Cultural Heritage Value, Sara Gwendolyn Ross
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Urban redevelopment projects increasingly draw on culture as a tool for rejuvenating city spaces but, in doing so, can overemphasize the economic or exchange-value potential of a cultural space to the detriment of what was initially meaningful about a space—that which carries great cultural community wealth, use-value, or embodies a group’s intangible cultural heritage. Development and preservation interests illustrate this tension in terms of how cultural heritage— both tangible and intangible—is managed in the city. This article will turn to Toronto’s “Music City” strategy that is being deployed as part of a culture-focused urban redevelopment trend and Creative City planning …