ENVS 2200 Chapter 6: ENVS 2200 – Analysis # 3.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Roger Keil

Document Summary

Article: using toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes and vice versa by richard. This week our main focus is an article written by richard harris and his take on common suburban stereotypes that are conceived by most people. Although harris talks about his mains ideas pertaining to his three suburban stereotypes, i will mainly focus on what was happening in toronto during the 1960"s and the idea of gentrification . To start off, redevelopment of many areas of toronto were much more common in the. 1960"s and toronto experienced a lot of building and development in this decade than any other decade. In the 1960"s, toronto was reshaping current environments into suburban landscapes in which houses, parks, schools, small businesses were the main infrastructures that you would see in the suburbs. Gentrification is the idea that many areas in the environment increase in value as many wealthy people starting moving in and occupying that area.