GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: List Of Neighbourhoods In Toronto, Ryerson University, Social Stratification

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Lecture 10 - everyday lives in immigrant neighbourhoods. Where would you like to live: downtown (old city of toronto, the inner suburbs, the outer suburbs, where the action is, a quiet neighbourhood, near people like you , however that is defined, close to something. Built form based e. g. suburbs, waterfront condos. Planners like to create neighbourhoods where they perhaps once existed. (historical) Bias (business improvement areas) like to invent them, whether they existed or not. (commercial/retail/lifestyle) It matters because where people live is an outcome for various economic, social, Review of some concepts underlying residential segregation: race", ethnicity, identity, ethnic identity, racialisation. Ideas about race" and ethnicity" are among the most powerful sources of human identity: who am i . Although debatable, these categories are often taken for granted. These notions are in fact, social constructs, products of specific historical and geographical forces, rather than biologically given ideas.

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