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Civil Cities and Urban Governance: Regulating Disorder for the Vancouver Winter Olympics

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Abstract

The paper analyses Project Civil City (PCC), a major initiative launched by the City of Vancouver in 2006 that aimed for significant reductions in street disorder in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. This initiative is considered in light of the links between urban regeneration/revitalisation efforts and security and surveillance practices. PCC stands as a telling moment in the on-going and highly politicised efforts to regulate urban disorder in this 'world city'. The paper concentrates on three distinct initiatives aimed at ordering different components of urban disorder in Vancouver.

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Author(s): Boyle P, Haggerty KD

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Urban Studies

Year: 2011

Volume: 48

Issue: 15

Pages: 3185-3201

Print publication date: 01/11/2011

ISSN (print): 0042-0980

ISSN (electronic): 1360-063X

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098011422391

DOI: 10.1177/0042098011422391

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