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Recommendation 16:
Improve social cohesion and decreasing social distance
As shown in this report, parallel economic and social systems exist and are pronounced in Chinatown. While there are multiple parallels in existence in all neighbourhoods to a degree, we believe that it is highly pronounced in this neighbourhood due to its demographics, history, and recent changes.
As identified in the Resilient Vancouver Phase One Engagement Report (2018), social cohesion and community connectedness were of key interest to the City. The engagement report explores several reasons as to why there are high levels of social isolation, including the “lack of understanding about Vancouver’s history and cultural heritage.” This cultural blindness contributes to the reinforcement of injustices and inequitable flow of knowledge and resources.
To fully recognize historic ethnocultural spaces and parallel social and economic systems will:
As our findings showcased and we have discussed in our conclusion, integration is not always possible nor is it ideal. Policies should start to recognize these parallels and their histories; measures of social cohesion and social distance both reflect the segregation that we rarely talk about as a city.
There are also UNESCO implications beyond just recognizing and valuing diversity through intangible cultural heritage; “within the context of globalisation, Intangible Cultural Heritage has capital importance as it allows cultural diversity to be maintained through dialogue between cultures and the promotion of respect towards other ways of life.” Intangible cultural heritage, as UNESCO states, will contribute “to social cohesion, encouraging a sense of identity and responsibility which helps individuals to feel part of one or different communities and to feel part of society at large.”
While several actions are discussed in the recommendations to “Addressing Parallel Systems,” we believe that focusing on increasing civic and public knowledge of our history and cultural heritage will result in an emergence of strategies and tactics that will reflect a more equitable reality.
As shown in this report, parallel economic and social systems exist and are pronounced in Chinatown. While there are multiple parallels in existence in all neighbourhoods to a degree, we believe that it is highly pronounced in this neighbourhood due to its demographics, history, and recent changes.
As identified in the Resilient Vancouver Phase One Engagement Report (2018), social cohesion and community connectedness were of key interest to the City. The engagement report explores several reasons as to why there are high levels of social isolation, including the “lack of understanding about Vancouver’s history and cultural heritage.” This cultural blindness contributes to the reinforcement of injustices and inequitable flow of knowledge and resources.
To fully recognize historic ethnocultural spaces and parallel social and economic systems will:
- Meaningfully shift the orientation of policy from “Place-making” to “Placekeeping;”
- Support the maintenance and growth of Chinatown’s social infrastructure as something critical to residents, businesses, and other groups; and
- Broaden the definition of “food assets” to include cultural food assets for their role in ensuring residents have access to healthy, culturally appropriate, and affordable food, along with a place for community identity and social connection.
As our findings showcased and we have discussed in our conclusion, integration is not always possible nor is it ideal. Policies should start to recognize these parallels and their histories; measures of social cohesion and social distance both reflect the segregation that we rarely talk about as a city.
There are also UNESCO implications beyond just recognizing and valuing diversity through intangible cultural heritage; “within the context of globalisation, Intangible Cultural Heritage has capital importance as it allows cultural diversity to be maintained through dialogue between cultures and the promotion of respect towards other ways of life.” Intangible cultural heritage, as UNESCO states, will contribute “to social cohesion, encouraging a sense of identity and responsibility which helps individuals to feel part of one or different communities and to feel part of society at large.”
While several actions are discussed in the recommendations to “Addressing Parallel Systems,” we believe that focusing on increasing civic and public knowledge of our history and cultural heritage will result in an emergence of strategies and tactics that will reflect a more equitable reality.
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Recommendation 6:
Improve multilevel accessibility in both traditional and non-traditional businesses, based on the definitions of accessibility provided in Appendix A. One example of language accessibility issues can be found in Appendix B: Other themes – Signage Accessibility.
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Recommendation 9:
Implement policies to reduce speculation & dampen property value inflation or other measures to improve tenureship of lease.
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Recommendation 4:
Implement cross-cultural marketing that is specific to programs and workshops, and engage across socio economic and cultural lines.
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Identify the needs of different community members to be better able to serve across parallel systems; leaving it solely to the free market will continue to gentrify the area and exacerbate existing cohesion problems.
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Recommendation 22:
From our findings, there is also a desire from business operators for further “clean-up of public spaces with local business”. Current actions are not satisfactory based on our interview findings. This ongoing challenge can be attributed to larger systemic issues. We stress that ‘clean-up’ does not mean increasing police presence in the neighbourhood.
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Recommendation 14:
Establish special economic zones for Chinatown and the DTES to recognize the unique cultural and social assets of these neighbourhoods.
- Provide appropriate support services to traditional businesses.
- Incentivize cooperation with culturally specific infrastructure.
- Legitimize aspects of informal and survival economies.
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Recommendation 5:
Establish cultural knowledge/skills sharing hub that works off of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) Article 14(a), where each State Party shall endeavour, by all appropriate means, to ensure recognition of, respect for, and enhancement of the intangible cultural heritage in society, in particular through:
- educational, awareness-raising and information programmes, aimed at the general public, in particular young people;
- specific educational and training programmes within the communities and groups concerned;
- capacity-building activities for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, in particular management and scientific research; and
- non-formal means of transmitting knowledge.
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Recommendation 12:
Establish a food-focused business incubator space (e.g. test/pop-up kitchen) to reduce barriers to small business startup.
- Encourage and incentivize a focus on cultural specificity in kitchen set up and training programs.
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Recommendation 2:
Encourage greater participation and engagement from all businesses with Chinatown-wide events & festivities.
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