Check this out... NFB CMHC 1964 doc about Vancouvers Downtown Eastside blight problem; paternalistic and frightening approach to civic planning. There was a time when old poor neighbourhoods were considered an urban blight and needed to be razed to make way for modern concrete towers. This is from 50 years ago, but the very ideology of the thinking involved is like from another planet. What was scary was the matter-of-fact narration. To replace Strathcona with low-income housing and make it even more of an armpit of the city than it is now. Chinatown and the Chinese were targeted for expropriation and destruction. They evacuated and interned the Japanese during the war, after the war, it was the Chineses turn to have their neighbourhood and community wiped out. If the community didnt stand up and fight back, there would be nothing left to revitalize. youtu.be/FY5I8h1lJjs Cinematography Bill Roozeboom Script Roy Minter Narration George McLean Sound recording Animation Marguerite Roozeboom Produced by Bill Lindsay and Bill Roozeboom Produced by Pageant Nightingale Productions
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:22:57 +0000
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