GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Distillery District
18 Oct 2017
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Caufield: the city: inner and outer zones, toro(cid:374)to"s i(cid:374)(cid:374)er zo(cid:374)e, the distillery, holy trinity church, regent park, st. jamestown. The distillery district: located a couple kilometers east of parliament (downtown toronto, pre-industrial phase: toronto was a service and trade centre (1830s-1861) Industrial phase: manufacturing develops and society sorts itself by class (1870s-1950s: post-industrial phase: manufacturing moves out of the city, globalization, gentrification (1950s-present) Importance: history of distillery district demonstrates the economical changes toronto has gone through. A failed project: the project was built disconnected from its surrounding context (no streets and nothing to do there so no one would go there unless they had a reason to) Modernism: a movement born in europe in the 1920s, a response to the effects of industrialism on city fabrics, modernism aimed at replacing slums with healthy and efficient lower-cost housing and promoting a more egalitarian urban society.
