GPHY 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Income Segregation, Social Inequality, Creative Class
14 Nov 2017
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Cit chapter 9: growing divisions: inequality, neighbourhood poverty and homelessness in the canadian city. Introduction: how well a society ensures equality and equity among its citizens is a key measure of its health, canadian cities have been growing more unequal and increasingly segregated over time. Income inequality is growing at multiple spatial scales from the national level to the provincial and metropolitan scales and on down to ca(cid:374)ada"s neighbourhoods. It is foremost in ca(cid:374)ada"s cities where the factors driving social polarization are salient. Growing unequal: trajectories of inequality: ca(cid:374)ada"s ove(cid:396)all level of income inequality began rising in earnest in the early to mid. Inequality has grown due to increasing poverty and higher incomes for the wealth: some cities including toronto and vancouver have seen an increase in poverty since the. 2000s: since 1970, the proportion of households that reported annual incomes surpassing.
