Boundaries, Narrative Frames, and the Politics of Place in Public Housing Redevelopment:  Exploring Toronto's Don Mount Court/Rivertowne

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dc.contributor.advisorCaulfield, Jon
dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Douglas
dc.creatorMair, David Graeme
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-15T19:56:06Z
dc.date.available2014-07-15T19:56:06Z
dc.date.copyright2014-02-10
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:45:26Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractToronto’s Rivertowne (formerly Don Mount Court) is Canada’s first fully completed experiment with redeveloping post-war public housing developments into newly built mixed-income neighbourhoods (a combination of public housing and private condominiums). Originally built at the end of Toronto’s urban renewal era, Don Mount Court consisted of 232 public housing units until the City’s public housing authority decided to tear the buildings down in 2003. Five years later, former residents, along with newcomers, moved into rows of townhouses under its new name, Rivertowne. Proponents of this project believed this would transform an isolated, stigmatized environment into a thriving and integrated community. This thesis explores redevelopment as a mechanism that has profound and intricate impacts on space, place-identity and social dynamics between residents. Drawing on interviews with residents, I argue that the way proponents envision redevelopment is overly idealistic and overshadows a number of problems produced by the project.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27645
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectUrban planningen_US
dc.subjectGeographyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGeographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUrban Studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPublic Housingen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRedevelopmenten_US
dc.subject.keywordsDon Mount Courten_US
dc.subject.keywordsRivertowneen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTorontoen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSouth Riverdaleen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNeighborhood Studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBoundariesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNeighborhood Narrative Framesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Mixen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBuilt Environmenten_US
dc.subject.keywordsNew Urbanismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNeo-tradionalismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUrban Planningen_US
dc.titleBoundaries, Narrative Frames, and the Politics of Place in Public Housing Redevelopment:  Exploring Toronto's Don Mount Court/Rivertowneen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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