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- Title
Childcare, Justice and the City: A Case Study of Planning Failure in Winnipeg.
- Authors
Prentice, Susan
- Abstract
This paper explores the city-childcare connection. It analyzes licensed childcare spaces in Winnipeg, finding that inequity characterizes the distribution of childcare in all neighbourhoods. Poorer and more Aboriginal neighbourhoods are particularly disadvantaged, having less access and fewer services than more affluent and suburban areas. Overall, the distribution of spaces and services reveals systemic dysfunctions in the current childcare architecture. This failure is multi-scalar: while experienced at the local level, the originating causes are with higher orders of government. Urban justice is denied by childcare policy and delivery that reproduces and compounds neighbourhood dis/advantage. The conclusion problematizes both voluntary sector reliance and local political inaction, each of which carries implications for planners.
- Subjects
CANADA; CHILD care services; PLANNING; NEIGHBORHOODS; CHILD care; CHILD services; INCOME inequality; CITIES &; towns; FIRST Nations social conditions
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
1188-3774
- Publication type
Case Study