PLAN233 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Urban Design, New Urbanism, Urban Renewal
17 Jan 2018
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Chapter 14: urban change and policy response in quebec. In the 1940s, relatively few aboriginal people lived in cities in canada, until recently: urbanization was seen as a partial solution for reserve and rural poverty, and the department of indian. Affairs organized a relocation program designed to assist first nations to move to urban areas. Social mix and canadian public housing redevelopment: experiences in toronto. Social mix policies are those intended to increase socio-economic diversity in an urban area, typically to correct the over- and under-representation of certain groups in comparison with the wider city. Social mix in the 1970s: reactions to post-war modernism. Jane jacobs"s 1961 publication of the death and life of great american cities was profoundly influential. Jacobs condemned slum clearance, urban renewal, and suburban homogeneity, and promoted social mix as one of the pillars of diversity, her cure-all for floundering cities.
