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URBAN STUDIES
Volume 50, Issue 11, Pages 2238-2255Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013478233
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The proclaimed aim of EcoDensity, an initiative of the former mayor of Vancouver, Canada, was the achievement of a more sustainable city development through densification of existing neighbourhoods. Since the invention of EcoDensity in summer 2006 it has become a highly debated topic. This paper aims at a critical analysis of how a planning strategy of densification tried to tie itself onto a discourse of sustainability, and also how it had to re-invent and reform itself through contestation and public debate in order to gain acceptance. Thus, the development of the strategy and its contestation are the focus of this paper. Theoretically informed by the theory on hegemony by Laclau and Mouffe, the paper shows why EcoDensity has beenalthough eventually approved by Councila failing hegemonic strategy. By referring to a theory on hegemony, the paper theoretically captures practices and struggles around a particular urban sustainability fix'.
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