Terminal City: Infrastructures of Racial Colonial Capitalism in Vancouver

The entanglement of Vancouver's infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitationVancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning.Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city's otherwise tidy self-image, Terminal City reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation. Examining the histories of Vancouver's infrastructures, including railways, ports, the freeway system, fossil-fuel pipelines, and property, Michael Simpson details the various spatial manifestations of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that constitute the city's urban environment-using it as a case study to reveal such tendencies around the world.Simpson exposes how the seizure of Indigenous lands and the destruction of Black communities has been foundational to the development of the city, and he highlights its structural dependency on the