Revanchism in the Canadian West: Gentrification and Resettlement in a Prairie City

This paper provides a local, quasi-ethnographic, activist-oriented analysis of the City of Edmonton’s gentrification of an area just adjacent to the downtown core. Announced in 2005 and according to the teachings of self-proclaimed “go-to guru” Richard Florida, City officials have called this a “revitalization” of the “downtown east.” The process and its already apparent effects reveal the strategy as one towards a targeted re-appropriation of …