Beyond the underground: Planning strategies to improve music culture and nightlife in Nanaimo
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As an emerging topic in planning practice, this research explores the perspectives of those involved with the facilitation of nightlife perceive the City of Nanaimo, British Columbia, and explores how current policy may have shaped the nightlife landscape. By exploring academic perspectives of normative concepts which have facilitated positive governing attitudes of nightlife, this research applies the theoretical framework of advocacy planning to conceptualize how the City of Nanaimo and the planning profession should understand when considering policy support for nightlife activity.