*Correspondence: jill.grant@dal.ca 1 School of Planning, Dalhousie University, Canada Jill L. Grant is Professor of Planning at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on the planning of residential environments, urban development and planning history. She is the author of dozens of articles and four books, including A Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking Theory and Practice (Thomson Nelson, 2008) and Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2006). 2 Townland Architecture and Planning, Hong Kong Gladys Wai Kwan Leung graduated with a major in Urban Design Studies at Dalhousie University in 2013. Her honours thesis assessed the influence of interest groups on development debates. She continued her studies and earned a Masters in International Real Estate and Planning from University College London. London Journal of Canadian Studies Disputing the Character of the City: Heritage, Regeneration and the Urban Design Turn Jill L. Grant 1, *, Gladys W. K. Leung 2 How to cite: Grant, J. L., Leung, G. W. K. ‘T Disputing the Character of the City: Heritage, Regeneration and the Urban Design Turn.’ London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2016, 31(1), pp. 113-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2016v31.008. Published: 01 September 2016 Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the journal’s standard double blind peer-review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. Copyright: © 2016, The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2016v31.008 Open Access: London Journal of Canadian Studies is a peer-reviewed open access journal.