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.
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