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Begging to Differ

Panhandling, Public space, and Municipal Property

From: Property on Trial

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Examination of a 2002 Supreme Court of British Columbia case concerning the constitutionality of a City of Vancouver bylaw regulating panhandling, and how it revealed tensions over the use of public property.

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Nicholas Blomley

Nicholas Blomley is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University. He has a long standing interest in property, both public and communal, and private. He is the author of Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property (Routledge, 2004) and Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow (Routledge, 2011).