Variations on a Suburb: Immigrant Culture and Urban Design at the City’s Edge

This paper presents preliminary research about the relationship between municipal urban design practices for suburban retrofits and immigrant cultural production. It argues that current urban design theory is biased by an assumption that there is a lack of culture in the suburbs which encourages a form of practice that seeks to replace existing suburban form with a European type of form that is assumed to be culturally superior. It offers analysis of clusters of Immigrant owned retail centered around associated places of worship in industrial areas as a potential space of citizen initiated cultural production. The research focuses on Brampton, a suburban municipality near Toronto.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.21.7

Volume Editors
Rico Quirindongo & Georgeen Theodore

ISBN
978-1-944214-39-5