Smith, Heather A. - In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 94 (2003) 4, pp. 496-509
Widely known as Vancouver's 'skid road' the Downtown Eastside struggles with the pressures of socio-spatial polarisation. While the neighbourhood has experienced deepening poverty, widening disadvantage, the entrenchment of an open air drug market, epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and rising crime...