PLX 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Urban Planning, Civic Engagement, Lawrence Of Rome

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLX 111
• Professor: Abigail

Document Summary

Plx class notes: revitalization and gentrification (week 8) a. i. Talk about the change in urban landscape and the challenges with it (history of reinvestment in deteriorating neighborhoods) a. ii. Revitalization in the city; the rapid growth in urban areas has been accompanied by intractable" urban social, economic, environmental problems. The idea of the creative cluster has come to be closely associated with regeneration initiatives. The economic and social transformation of urban areas through investment, infrastructure is revitalization. However, the risks of regeneration (itself often measured in rising real estate values) include loss of affordable housing and increased gentrification (in which well-off professionals move into improved areas, leaving the less-well- off to move elsewhere) Regent park may slowly become gentrified as the condominiums and market- based housing eventually dominate the social landscape. Gentrification: a term crated to look at the changing market and class changes in.