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- Title
Heritage preservation and the 'differentiated countryside': Evidence from southern Ontario La protection du patrimoine et la « campagne différenciée » : des preuves provenant du sud de l'Ontario.
- Authors
Mitchell, Clare J.A.; Randle, Kathryn
- Abstract
Hedonic consumption is contributing to functional diversity in the amenity-rich countryside of many North American and European cities. Building on earlier research (Mitchell ), we question if heritage policy is contributing to this emerging state. We revisit St. Jacobs, Ontario, whose historic commercial core has evolved into a hybrid pleasure-scape appealing to the amenity-seeking consumer. Our policy, streetscape, and functional analyses find an absence of Regional and Township bylaws mandating building preservation and, hence, few designated properties in the village. Building removal and addition has ensued, giving rise to considerable functional elasticity. We conclude that the absence of an effective public preservation narrative, combined with a hegemonic profit discourse, encourages functional change and differentiation within the city's countryside. This scenario is undoubtedly unfolding not only here, but in other rural spaces with hedonistic appeal.
- Subjects
PRESERVATION of historic sites; HEDONISTIC consumption; CONSUMER behavior; BY-laws; STREETSCAPES (Urban design)
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2014, Vol 58, Issue 4, p429
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12131