GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frequency, Gentrification, False Creek

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

Who one is may determine how one sees gentrification: many urban planners are pro-gentrification, economic prosperity, attract investment and right people, cities at tourist venues, middle-class home owners in areas undergoing gentrification are pro-gentrification. Low income renters are generally anti-gentrification: exclusionary invasion of heartless landlords. Waves or periods of gentrification: wave/period 1 (1960s-early 1970s, sporadic and small. In large n. e us and w. european cities: state led, wave/period 2: (late 1970s-late 90s, early 90s) Gentrification examples: beaches and cabbage town (toronto, condo-ization of downtown montreal and toronto, docklands and canary warf in london. Followed by urban redevelopment or gentrification (or pushing out of lower income groups by a combo of investment and govt. Influx of more poor into the city centre: exodus of the wealthy, decline of infrastructure, city taxes raised, middle classes leave too, downward spiral supported by fractured city governments serving local interests only.