Challenging the rhetoric of stigmatization: The benefits of concentrated poverty in toronto's Regent Park

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1317-1333

  August, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deconcentration; Gentrification; HOPE VI; Public housing; Regent Park; Revitalization; Social mix; Territorial stigma; Toronto

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COPING STRATEGY; GENTRIFICATION; HOUSING PROVISION; INNER CITY AREA; POVERTY; REDEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL HOUSING; SOCIAL NETWORK; WELFARE IMPACT;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84902829716     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45635     Document Type: Article

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