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Format: 1 online resource (270 pages) : , illustrations, maps, photographs

ISBN: 9781442672970 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Caulfield, Jon. City form and everyday life : Toronto's gentrification and critical social practice. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c1994 ISBN 9780802074485

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442672970

Content: 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.

Note: 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

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442672970

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672970