Transit-Oriented Development Surrounding GO Transit’s Stouffville Line Stations in Scarborough: Issues and Prospects
| dc.contributor.advisor | Squire, Jeffrey | |
| dc.contributor.author | David, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-24T19:33:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-24T19:33:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Transit-oriented development (TOD) policies greatly impact where housing development is focused in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Improvements to enhance southern Ontario’s GO Train system are being made throughout the decade and the 2030s. With this enhancement and the related TOD policies for Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) that encourage density, more housing development is beginning to form. These governmental policies that encourage transit ridership through increased accessibility and mobility work to curb greenhouse gas emissions, reduce commuting times, and utilize existing and proposed infrastructure. However, these outcomes are not sufficiently interconnected with affordable housing provision in the GTA to mitigate gentrification and displacement pressures. As higher-income individuals are attracted to amenity-rich areas like those that surround a train station, lower-income individuals may be financially excluded by not having housing affordable to them. To explore the relationship between TOD policies and the occurrence of gentrification and displacement, this Major Paper focuses on Scarborough’s three Stouffville Line GO Train stations. The Major Paper analyzes whether gentrification and displacement have occurred in the areas surrounding these stations from 2016 to the present. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Major Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42615 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Urban Design | |
| dc.subject | Transit-Oriented Development | |
| dc.subject | Transportation | |
| dc.subject | Gentrification | |
| dc.subject | Social Exclusion | |
| dc.subject | Complete Communities | |
| dc.subject | Sustainability | |
| dc.subject | Micro-mobility, financialization | |
| dc.title | Transit-Oriented Development Surrounding GO Transit’s Stouffville Line Stations in Scarborough: Issues and Prospects | |
| dc.type | Research Paper |