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Author Caulfield, Jon

Title City Form and Everyday Life : Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Heritage
Heritage.
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
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Gentrification -- Ontario -- Toronto
Neighborhoods -- Ontario -- Toronto
Urban renewal -- Ontario -- Toronto
Sociology, Urban -- Ontario -- Toronto
Gentrification
Neighborhoods
Sociology, Urban
Urban renewal
SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136127
Subject Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442672970
1442672978