GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Forces, Geographical Segregation, Economic Inequality

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

Document Summary

Purchase of degraded buildings at low prices. Municipal government encouragement and investment in development. Many urban planners and urban class homeowners are pro gentrification. Low income renters are generally anti gentrification. A measure of the difference in a sites actual value and its potential value at best use. More of a focus on a social process in canada. Gentrification a natural outgrowth of increased professional employment in the central business district. The social forces behind the rise of suburbia. Industrialization follows cheap labour and dense transportation systems to the city centre. Those who could afford to move out to avoid noise and dirt. Influx of more poor into the city centre. Racism had a major impact on the creation of suburbia. Blacks would not be allowed mortgages on houses, agents would. 67% of our population lives in suburbs. 88% of our metropolitan population lives in the suburbs. Includes (5 major: boston, new york, philadelphia, boltamor, washinton.