GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gentrification, Distillery District
31 May 2016
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Pre-industrial phase: service & trade centre (1830 - 1861: competing with usa & britain for materials and goods, john a. macdonald created a national policy so that canada can produce its own goods. Industrial phase: manufacturing develops and society sorts itself by class (1870 - 1950: factories developing in the city, high income individuals move more residential (rosedale) and lower income people stay near the factories. Homeless memorial - remembering the ones who passed away that year: jane doe & john doe - named those who don"t have documents, regent park: Lower income individuals who cannot afford the houses/rent in toronto. Mono-use area (residential) - closed off from the rest of the city. Now: public & private investments help develop the area. Urban form: changing in overall structure of the city/area: building, destroying, changing. Urban function: how the city works/functions: different uses for the area/building (distillery district - factories to tourism)
