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Folding Collective Joy & Reparation : Inspired from and Inviting Hearts

Bi, Bridget

The Sun-Yat-Sen courtyard in Vancouver’s Chinatown is a contested space, sometimes manifesting the socio-material realm of cultural celebration and intergenerational joy. It is located near the gentrification project 105 Keefer, where the Chinatown communities expand their voices and act against the gradual, ongoing displacement pressures. Under the impact of this indirect and sensory displacement, there is a degradation of social services and gathering spaces, as well as the issues of language barriers and class-based judgments, which are major concerns for low-income seniors in the community. Advocating for spatial justice in the Sun-Yat-Sen courtyard serves as a critical microcosm to resonate intergenerational efforts toward resilience and reimagine the authentic public space to enhance place-keeping in the field of landscape architecture. It is significant to challenge the mono-application of design universality in the City of Vancouver and reimagine the guidance of cultural specificity to serve community benefits and keep the meaningful placemaking in the urban landscape. Along with cultural specificity, the spatial flexibility and transitions also invite community agency of their contingent decision-making when landscape architecture provides instrumental strategies to assist spatial activation. The readers will also be invited to alternate the positionality from an outsider to an insider via the mapping of Garlic Walk.

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448779

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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