{"id":50375,"date":"2016-12-01T01:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50375"},"modified":"2016-12-01T01:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:10:34","slug":"guest-shot-vancouver-viaducts-removal-clears-way-to-honour-hogans-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50375","title":{"rendered":"Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vancouver Metro News<\/a>
\n2016-11-10<\/p>\n

Wayde Compton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nVancouver<\/a> writer Wayde Compton<\/a> (Ayelet Tsabari\/Submitted)<\/small><\/p>\n

Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year, Vancouver City Council<\/a> voted to take the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts<\/a> down.<\/p>\n

This was the culmination of years of study, spearheaded by Coun. Geoff Meggs<\/a> of Vision Vancouver. Before the vote, members of the public appeared before council to say a few words, to voice their hopes and concerns.<\/p>\n

They were so numerous that two days were required to accommodate everyone. While a wide variety of opinions were aired, many of the people there insisted that in some way or other the new plans need to honour the history of Hogan’s Alley<\/a> \u2014 the neighbourhood that existed for decades at the site where the viaducts were built in the late 1960s, and which included a sizeable population of black Vancouverites..<\/p>\n

…The viaducts were part of an “urban renewal” scheme that fit a pattern of such plans all across North America<\/a> during that era: freeways were slated to connect cities to their suburbs, and they were almost always run through black neighbourhoods \u2014 because black residents were considered expendable.<\/p>\n

In the case of Vancouver<\/a>, Chinatown<\/a> was also targeted.<\/p>\n

But as it turned out, Vancouver\u2019s freeway plan was never realized, and the only portion built was the one that obliterated black centralization in the East End (or Strathcona<\/a>, as it came to be called through this planning)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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