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Strategies For More Inclusive Municipal Participatory Governance And Implimenting Un-Habitat's New Urban Agenda: Improving Consultation And Participation In Urban Planning Decision-Making Processes Through Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures, Sara Gwendolyn Ross
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Based on the findings of an urban legal anthropology project in Toronto, Canada that tracked municipal decision-making practices in relation to development, redevelopment, and heritage preservation in the city and the often unforeseen and unacknowledged effects these can have on marginal, transgressive, and subaltern (subcultural) communities and their community cultural spaces and practices, this article will first turn to a few neighbourhood examples of public consultation processes underway in Toronto and observations of visual (vocal) resistance to faulty consultation practices. These examples reveal some of the realities of public consultation design in Toronto and how it is experienced on the …