Introduction: Imagining Chinatown -- Claiming space, creating Chinatown, 1870-1940 -- "Chinatown was the safe space": community, memory, and place, 1940-1980 -- "We want homes not highways": urban renewal and the "save Chinatown" movement -- "Be part of progress, not its sacrificial lamb": community development strategies 1970-2000 -- "A legacy of resistance": Chinatown north and 21st century challenges -- "We are the ones who should be telling the story": representing Chinatown -- Epilogue: "Is, was and will be Chinatown".
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