SOSC 2617 Lecture Notes - Baby Boomers, Cupcake, Deindustrialization
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The restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low- income residents) Geographically they went to the suburbs (became rich or poor: polarization) Detroit: lost auto sector jobs (extreme example) Urbicide: killing cities; intentional attempt to erase or destroy a city or cities for political purposes. New kinds of jobs, service sector jobs in the city. Case study: vancouver (downtown eastside): original function was a place to accommodate the mobile workers (timber, railroad); rooming house cultural (until 1970s; faded by 1990s); sro (single. Room occupancy) every building on 100 hastings st . What about density? (live close to each other; eco density)