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Changing Neighbourhoods

Changing Neighbourhoods

Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities

Edited by Jill Grant, Alan Walks and Howard Ramos

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

26 maps, 20 charts, 7 colour photos, 21 tables

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9780774862042
Published: March 2020

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9780774862059
Published: April 2020

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The book will be of interest to academics concerned with social change and inequality and polarization, as well as those in urban studies and planning, urban geography, and sociology. Because it addresses the policy implications of neighbourhood change, it will also appeal to policy practitioners and policy makers.

Foreword / Janet L. Smith

Preface

Part 1: Exploring Neighbourhood Change

1 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change: Context, Concept, and Process / Larry S. Bourne and J. David Hulchanski

2 Plus ça Change: Neighbourhood Inequality in Canadian Cities since 1900 / Richard Harris

3 Using Social Dimensions and Neighbourhood Typologies to Characterize Neighbourhood Change / Ivan Townshend and Robert Murdie

Part 2: Investigating Neighbourhood Change in Canada

4 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change in the Greater Toronto Region / Alan Walks

5 Montreal: The Changing Drivers of Inequality between Neighbourhoods / Xavier Leloup and Damaris Rose

6 The Social Geography of Uneven Incomes in Metropolitan Vancouver / David Ley and Nicholas Lynch

7 Hamilton: Poster Child for Concentrated Poverty / Richard Harris

8 Halifax: Scaling Inequality / Jill L. Grant and Howard Ramos

9 Neighbourhood Change in Calgary: An Evolving Geography of Income Inequality and Social Difference / Ivan Townshend, Byron Miller, and Derek Cook

10 People, Policies, and Place: Indigenous and Immigrant Population Shift s in Winnipeg’s Inner-City Neighbourhoods / Jino Distasio and Sarah Zell

Part 3: Understanding the Implications of Neighbourhood Change

11 Mapping Canada’s Fragmented Social Policy Space: Plotting Ways to Reverse Trends in Inequality and Segregation through Coordinated Poverty Reduction / Scott Graham, Stephanie Procyk, and Michelynn Laflèche

12 Evaluating Neighbourhood Inequality and Change: Lessons from a National Comparison / Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos

References; Contributors; Index

Jill L. Grant is a professor emeritus of planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She is the author or editor of five books and of dozens of scholarly articles. She has received several awards from the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and has had articles included in prize-winning collections selected by the World Planning Schools Association.

Alan Walks is a professor of urban geography and planning at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous scholarly articles related to urban inequality, gentrification, financialization, electoral geography, neighbourhood change, and housing policy, among other things. He is the editor of The Political Economy and Ecology of Automobolity: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics (2015), and co-editor of The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (2013).

Howard Ramos is a professor of sociology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is author or editor of four books. He has published on a wide range of social justice issues ranging from political mobilization, to human rights and equity issues, and perceptions of change.

Overall, this is an important work for social geography and urban studies.
~M.E. Pfeifer, CHOICE Connect

Changing Neighbourhoods provides a timely and significant contribution to our understanding of the causes and consequences of social change at the neighbourhood level. ~Joshua Harold, Humber College ITAL, Canadian Jewish Studies