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Adaptive City : Towards Emerging Industrial Ecologies Ryan, Miles-Christopher

Abstract

Located on the East shore of Victoria BC Upper Harbour, the Rock Bay Industrial District—the Workshop of the City—is home to a critical reservoir of living income employment, businesses and services essential to the economic health and resilience of the City. Extreme land shortage, paired with aged low-density building stock and high property taxes, have contributed to an affordability crisis threatening viability of the area. The impacts are wide reaching: forcing anchor businesses to migrate regionally, depleting the area’s diversity and development confidence. This highly constrained environment places enormous pressure on small businesses to maintain viability for the area, resulting in inflation, renovictions, and potential large-scale future rezoning.

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Adaptive City : Towards Emerging Industrial Ecologies
Creator
Ryan, Miles-Christopher
Date Issued
2019-12-19
Description
Located on the East shore of Victoria BC Upper Harbour, the Rock Bay Industrial District—the Workshop of the City—is home to a critical reservoir of living income employment, businesses and services essential to the economic health and resilience of the City. Extreme land shortage, paired with aged low-density building stock and high property taxes, have contributed to an affordability crisis threatening viability of the area. The impacts are wide reaching: forcing anchor businesses to migrate regionally, depleting the area’s diversity and development confidence. This highly constrained environment places enormous pressure on small businesses to maintain viability for the area, resulting in inflation, renovictions, and potential large-scale future rezoning.
Subject
Resilience; Industrial; Architecture; Adaptive Capacity
Geographic Location
Victoria (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2020-01-03
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0387429
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/73068
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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