GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Urban Decay, Gentrification
20 Dec 2017
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The component parts of the urban landscape are: downtown - i. e. the central business district (cbd, residential areas (housing) - i. e. neighbourhoods, industrial areas - i. e. manufacturing, etc, commercial areas - i. e. offices, stores, restaurants, etc. Neighbourhood: a part of the city that displays some internal homogeneity regarding type of housing, may be characterized by a relatively uniform income level and/or ethnic identity, and usually reflects certain shared social values. The built form of neighbourhoods is relatively permanent => changes come incrementally and/or via broader-scale redevelopment. E. g. individuals who decide to renovate their homes. The people that comprise neighbourhood residents also change incrementally, but overtime the social-cultural character of neighbourhoods can change. Recall: assignment #1 - observed neighbourhood change overtime via fire. As houses are passed from one individual/family to the next, two types of gradual social change are common: i) economic and ii) cultural.
