04163nam 2200757 450 991045617830332120200520144314.097866120119001-282-01190-11-4426-7297-810.3138/9781442672970(CKB)2430000000000947(OCoLC)244768134(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226327(SSID)ssj0000291653(PQKBManifestationID)12131861(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291653(PQKBWorkID)10250337(PQKB)10961022(MiAaPQ)EBC4671347(CaBNvSL)slc00213227 (MiAaPQ)EBC3257927(DE-B1597)464320(OCoLC)944178359(DE-B1597)9781442672970(Au-PeEL)EBL4671347(CaPaEBR)ebr11257063(CaONFJC)MIL201190(OCoLC)958565249(EXLCZ)99243000000000094720160926h19941994 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCity form and everyday life Toronto's gentrification and critical social practice /Jon CaulfieldToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1994.©19941 online resource (270 p.) HeritageIncludes index.0-8020-7448-0 0-8020-2997-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 4. Postmodern Urbanism and the Canadian Corporate City -- 5. Everyday Life, Inner-City Resettlement, and Critical Social Practice -- 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 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 and in the social sciences.This case study explores processes of change in Toronto's inner neighbourhoods in recent decades, integrating an understanding of political economy with an appreciation of the culture of everyday urban life. The author locates Toronto's gentrification in a context of both global and local patterns of contemporary city-building, focusing on the workings of the property industry and of the local state, the rise and decline of modernist planning, and the transition to postindustrial urbanism.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, embodying both the emerging dominance of a deindustrialized urban economy and an immanent critique of contemporary city-building.GentrificationOntarioTorontoNeighborhoodsOntarioTorontoUrban renewalOntarioTorontoSociology, UrbanOntarioTorontoToronto (Ont.)HistoryElectronic books.GentrificationNeighborhoodsUrban renewalSociology, Urban307.7609713541Caulfield Jon1043427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456178303321City form and everyday life2468392UNINA