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

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

Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews among a segment of Toronto's inner-city, middle-class population, Caulfield argues that the seeds of gentrification have included patterns of critical social practice and that the 'gentrified' landscape is highly paradoxical.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caulfield, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Series:Heritage.
Subjects:
Gentrification > Ontario > Toronto.
Neighborhoods > Ontario > Toronto.
Urban renewal > Ontario > Toronto.
Sociology, Urban > Ontario > Toronto.
Gentrification
Neighborhoods
Sociology, Urban
Urban renewal
Toronto (Ont.) > History.
Ontario > Toronto
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of 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
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.

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