This article first situates itself within the example of Toronto as one of UNESCO’s newly minted global “Cities of Culture”. This network of “creative cities” is intended to facilitate a framework for these cities to work together in “placing creativity and cultural industries at the...

Based on the findings of an urban legal anthropology project in Toronto, Canada that tracked municipal decision-making practices in relation to development, redevelopment, and heritage preservation in the city and the often unforeseen and unacknowledged effects these can have on marginal,...