Caulfield, Jon.

City Form and Everyday Life : Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (270 pages) - Heritage Series . - Heritage Series .

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.

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.

9781442672970


Gentrification-Ontario-Toronto.
Neighborhoods-Ontario-Toronto.
Urban renewal-Ontario-Toronto.
Sociology, Urban-Ontario-Toronto.
Toronto (Ont.)-History.


Electronic books.

HT178.C22 C385 1994

307.76/09713/541