City Form and Everyday Life : : Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice /

City Form and Everyday Life : : Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice / / Jon Caulfield.

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One feature of contemporary urban life has been the widespread transformation, by middle-class resettlement, of older inner-city neighbourhoods formerly occupied by working-class and underclass communities. Often termed ‘gentrification’, this process has been a focus of intense debate in urban study...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Caulfield, Jon,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (253 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One – Context
  • 1. Contrasts, Ironies, and Urban Form: The Remaking of the Historical City
  • 2. Capital, Modernism, Boosterism: Forces in Toronto’s Postwar City-Building
  • 3. Reform, Deindustrialization, and the Redirection of City-Building
  • Part Two – Theory
  • 4. Postmodern Urbanism and the Canadian Corporate City
  • 5. Everyday Life, Inner-City Resettlement, and Critical Social Practice
  • Part Three – Fieldwork
  • 6. Fieldwork Strategy and First Reflections
  • 7. Middle-Class Resettlers and Inner-City Lifeworlds
  • 8. Perceptions of Inner-City Change: Eclipse of a Lifeworld?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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