Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto's Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002 Contributor(s): Whitzman, Carolyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774815353 ISBN-13: 9780774815352 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) |
Dewey: 796.045 |
LCCN: 2009277998 |
Physical Information: 240 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood - Toronto's Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale's story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and its post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale's image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood. Whitzman demonstrates that image and reality have not always correlated for Parkdale. Parkdale's changing image stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly discriminatory planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century. |