Governing the commercial streets of the city: New terrains of disinvestment and gentrification in toronto's inner suburbs

Antipode

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 216-239

  Rankin, Katharine N ^a   Mclean, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commercial street; Community based research; Critical urban studies; Gentrification; Neighbourhoods; Suburbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920578295     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12096     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. Artscape (2012) Artscape website. http://www.torontoartscape.org (last accessed 7 March 2014)
2. Aytar V and Rath J (2012) Selling Ethnic Neighbourhoods: The Rise of Neighbourhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption. New York: Routledge
3. Bannerji H (2000) Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Racism. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press
4. Blomley N K (2004) Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property. New York: Routledge
5. Bourdieu P (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
6. Bourdieu P (1986) The forms of capital. In J G Richardson (ed) Handbook of Theory and Research in the Sociology of Education (pp 241-258). New York: Greenwood
7. Bridge G (2001) Estate agents as interpreters of economic and social capital: The gentrification premium in the Sydney housing market. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(1):87-101
8. Cahill C (2007) Negotiating grit and glamour: Young women of colour and gentrification. City and Society 19(2):202-231
9. Catungal J P, Leslie D and Hii Y (2009) Geographies of displacement in the creative city: The case of Liberty Village, Toronto. Urban Studies 46(5):1095-1114
10. City of York (1991) Extracts of Phase III Report: Mt. Dennis Redevelopment Plan Strategy
11. City of York (1994) Mount Dennis Secondary Plan: Revised Official Plan Amendment
12. Cooke B and Kothari U (2001) Participation: The New Tyranny. London: Zed
13. Cowen D and Parlette V (2011) "Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Social Infrastructure in Scarborough." Research Paper 220, Cities Centre, University of Toronto
14. Creative Class Struggle (2012) Creative Class Struggle website. http://creativeclassstruggle.wordpress.com (last accessed 7 March 2014)
15. Curran W (2004) Gentrification and the nature of work: Exploring the links in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Environment and Planning A 36(7):1243-1258
16. Cushman and Wakefield (2011) Marketbeat retail snapshot: Toronto/Canada Q4 2011. Markham, ON: Cushman & Wakefield
17. Davidson M and McNeill D (2012) The redevelopment of Olympic sites: Examining the Legacy of Sydney Olympic Park. Urban Studies 49(8):1625-1641
18. Doucet B (2010) Inner cities, inner suburbs, outer suburbs: Geographies, changing preferences. GeographyJobs.com 15 January. http://www.geographyjobs.com/article_view.php?article_id=201 (last accessed 13 November 2013)
19. Dowling R (2009) Geographies of identity: Landscapes and class. Progress in Human Geography 33(6):833-839
20. Galabuzi G F (2007) Marxism and anti-racism: Extending the dialogue on race and class. Marxism: A Socialist Annual 5:47-49
21. Ghertner A (2011) Gentrifying the state, gentrifying participation: Elite governance programs in Delhi. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(3):504-532
22. Gibson-Graham J K (2006) A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
23. Goonewardena K and Kipfer S (2005) Spaces of difference: Reflections from Toronto on multiculturalism, bourgeois urbanism, and the possibility of radical urban politics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(3):670-678
24. Gosine A and Teelucksingh S (2008) Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada. Toronto: Emond Montgomery
25. Hackworth J (2002) Post recession gentrification in New York City. Urban Affairs Review 37(6):815-843
26. Hackworth J and Rekers J (2005) Ethnic packaging and gentrification: The case of four neighbourhoods in Toronto. Urban Affairs Review 41(2):211-236
27. Hackworth J and Smith N (2001) The changing state of gentrification. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 22:464-477
28. Hall S (1980) Race, articulation, and societies structured in dominance. In UNESCO (ed) Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism (pp 305-345). Paris: UNESCO
29. Harris R (1999) Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
30. Hartman C (1984) The right to stay put. In C Geisler and F Popper (eds) Land Reform, American Style (pp 302-318). Totowa: Rowman and Allanheld
31. Hulchanski J D (2010) "The Three Cities Within Toronto: Income Polarization Among Toronto's Neighbourhoods, 1970-2005." Cities Centre, University of Toronto
32. Hunter M (2010) Racial desegregation and schooling in South Africa: Contested geographies of class formation. Environment and Planning A 42(11):2640-2657
33. Isenberg A (2004) Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
34. Janzen K (2012) Employment land certainty: Metrolinx buys Kodak site. Novae Res Urbis 16(2)
35. Kern L (2013) All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction. Gender, Space, and Culture 20(4):510-527
36. Kipfer S and Keil R (2002) Toronto Inc? Planning the competitive city in the new Toronto. Antipode 34(2): 227-264
37. Larner W (2011) C-change? Geographies of crisis. Dialogues in Human Geography 1(3):319-335
38. Lees L (2000) A re-appraisal of gentrification: Towards a geography of gentrification. Progress in Human Geography 24:389-408
39. Lehrer U and Wieditz T (2009) Gentrification and the loss of Employment Lands: Toronto's Studio District. Critical Planning 16:138-160
40. Leslie D and Hunt M (2013) Securing the neoliberal city: Discourses of creativity and priority neighbourhoods in Toronto, Canada. Urban Geography 34(8):1171-1192
41. Ley D (1986) Alternative explanations for innercity gentrification: A Canadian assessment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(4):521-535
42. Ley D and Dobson C (2008) Are there limits to gentrification? Urban Studies 45(12):2471-2498
43. Lo L (2009) Immigrants and social services in the suburbs. In D Young, P Wood and R Keil (eds) In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability (pp 131-150). Kelowna: Praxis (e)Press
44. Lorinc J (2005) Stripping away stereotypes: Toronto's retail plazas. In J McBride and A Wilcox (eds) uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (pp 132-139). Toronto: Coach House
45. MacDonald I (2013) Beyond the labour of Sisyphus: Unions and the city. In L Panitch, G Albo and V Chibber (eds) Socialist Register 2014: Registering Class. London: Merlin
46. MacLeod G (2002) From urban entrepreneurialism to a revanchist city? On the spatial injustices of Glasgow's renaissance. Antipode 34(3):602-624
47. Marcuse P (1985) Gentrification, abandonment, and displacement: Connections, causes, and policy responses in New York City. Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 28:195-240
48. Marcuse P (2009) From critical urban theory to the right to the city. City 13(2/3):185-197
49. Mazer K and Rankin K (2011) The social space of gentrification: The politics of neighbourhood accessibility in Toronto's downtown west. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(5):822-839
50. McCann E (2007) Inequality and politics in the creative city-region: Questions of livability and state strategy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(1):188-196
51. McKittrick K and Woods C (2007) "No one knows the mysteries at the bottom of the ocean". In K McKittrick and C Woods (eds) Black Geographies and the Politics of Space (pp 1-13). Toronto: Between the Lines
52. McLean H (2010) The politics of creative performance in public space: Towards Toronto case studies. In T Edensor, D Leslie, S Millington and N Rantisi (eds) Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy (pp 200-214). London: Routledge
53. Monsebraaten L (2009) Last chance for Weston, Toronto's rustbelt. Toronto Star 26 April
54. National Post (2007) Future of Kodak lands not yet in focus. 24 July
55. Ontario Ministry of Finance (2011) Ontario Population Projections Update. http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/demographics/projections (last accessed 7 March 2014)
56. Pain R (2004) Social geography: Participatory research. Progress in Human Geography 28(5):1-12
57. Parlette V and Cowen D (2011) Dead malls: Suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(4):794-811
58. Patch J (2008) Ladies and gentrification: New stores, residents, and relationships in neighbourhood change. In J DeSena (ed) Gender in an Urban World (pp 103-126). Bingley: Emerald
59. Peake L and Kobayashi A (2002) Policies and practices for an antiracist geography at the millennium. The Professional Geographer 54(1):50-61
60. Peck J (2011) Recreative city. International Journal of Urban Research 36(3):462-485
61. Polanyi K (1944) The Great Transformation: The Political Origins of our Time. Boston: Beacon Press
62. Pulido L (2000) Rethinking environmental racism: White privilege and urban development in Southern California. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90(1):12-40
63. Rankin J (2012) Known to police: Toronto police stop and document black and brown people far more than whites. Toronto Star 9 March. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/knowntopolice.html (last accessed 10 April 2014)
64. Rankin K N (2013) Polanyian pedagogies in planning and economic geography. Environment and Planning A 45:1650-1655
65. Rankin K N, Kamazaki K and McLean H (2013) "The State of Business in Mount Dennis: Disinvestment and Gentrification in Toronto's Inner Suburbs." Research Paper 226, Cities Centre, University of Toronto. http://www.citiescentre.utoronto.ca/publications.htm (last accessed 7 March 2014)
66. Reay D (2005) Beyond consciousness? The pyschic landscape of social class. Sociology 39:911-928
67. Roberts D and Mahtani M (2010) Neoliberalizing race, racing neoliberalism: Placing "race" in neoliberal discourses. Antipode 42(2):248-257
68. Sawchuk P and Ross S (eds) (forthcoming) Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning Research Almanac. Toronto: APCOL/Centre for the Study of Education and Work, University of Toronto
69. Schein R (2002) Race, racism, and geography. The Professional Geographer 54(1):1-5
70. Shaw K (2005) Local limits to gentrification: Implications for a new urban policy. In R Atkinson and G Bridge (eds) Gentrification in a Global Context: The New Urban Colonialism (pp 168-184). New York: Routledge
71. Shaw S, Bagwell S and Karmowska J (2004) Ethnoscapes as spectacle: Reimaging multicultural districts as new destinations for leisure and tourism consumption. Urban Studies 41(10):1983-2000
72. Sibley D (1998) Problematizing exclusion: Reflections on space, difference, and knowledge. International Planning Studies 3(1):93-100
73. Slater T (2004) Municipally-managed gentrification in South Parkdale, Toronto. The Canadian Geographer 48(3):303-332
74. Slater T (2006) The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(4):737-757
75. Smith N (1996) The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. New York: Routledge
76. Stapleton J, Murphy B and Xing Y (2012) The Working Poor in the Toronto Region: Who They Are, Where They Live, and How Trends are Changing. Toronto: Metcalfe Foundation
77. Stillerman J (2006) The politics of space and culture in Santiago, Chile's street markets. Qualitative Sociology 29(4):507-530
78. Sullivan D M and Shaw C (2011) Retail gentrification and race: The case of Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon. Urban Affairs Review 47(3):403-422
79. Viswanathan L (2010) Contesting racialization in a neoliberal city: Cross-cultural collective identity as a strategy among alternative planning organizations in Toronto. GeoJournal 75(3):261-272
80. Wacquant L (2002) Scrutinizing the street: Poverty, morality, and the pitfalls of urban ethnography. American Journal of Sociology 107(6):1468-1532
81. Walks R A (2011) Economic restructuring and trajectories of socio-spatial polarization in the twenty-first century Canadian city. In L S Bourne, T Hutton, R Shearmur and J Simmons (eds) Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change (pp 125-159). Oxford: Oxford University Press
82. Walks R A and August M (2008) The factors inhibiting gentrification in areas with little non-market housing: Policy lessons from the Toronto experience. Urban Studies 45(12):2594-2625
83. Ward K (2011) Policies in motion and in place: The case of the business improvement districts. In E McCann and K Ward (eds) Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age (pp 71-96). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
84. Watson S (2009) The magic of the marketplace: Sociality in a neglected public space. Urban Studies 46(8):1577-1591
85. Woods C (2002) Life after death. The Professional Geographer 54(1):62-66
86. Zukin S (2009) Changing landscapes of power: Opulence and the urge for authenticity. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(2):543-553
87. Zukin S, Kasinitz P and Chen X (forthcoming) Global Cities, Local Streets. New York: Routledge