Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities

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Canadians have a right to live in cities that meet their basic needs in a dignified way, but in recent decades increased inequality and polarization have been reshaping the social landscape of Canada’s urban areas. This book examines the dimensions and impacts of increased economic inequality and urban socio-spatial polarization since the 1980s. Based on the work of the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, an innovative national comparative study of seven major cities, the authors reveal the dynamics of neighbourhood change across the Canadian urban system. While the heart of the book lies in the project’s findings from each city, other chapters provide important context. Taken together, they offer important understandings of the depth and the breadth of the problem at hand and signal the urgency for concerted policy responses in the decades to come. Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword • Janet L. Smith Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Exploring Neighbourhood Change 1 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change: Context, Concept, and Process • Larry S. Bourne and J. David Hulchanski 2 Plus ça Change: Neighbourhood Inequality in Canadian Citiessince 1900 • Richard Harris 3 Using Social Dimensions and Neighbourhood Typologies to Characterize Neighbourhood Change • Ivan Townshend and Robert Murdie Part 2: Investigating Neighbourhood Change in Canada 4 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change in the Greater Toronto Region • Alan Walks 5 Montreal: The Changing Drivers of Inequality between Neighbourhoods • Xavier Leloup and Damaris Rose 6 The Social Geography of Uneven Incomes in Metropolitan Vancouver • David Ley and Nicholas Lynch 7 Hamilton: Poster Child for Concentrated Poverty • Richard Harris 8 Halifax: Scaling Inequality • Jill L. Grant and Howard Ramos 9 Neighbourhood Change in Calgary: An Evolving Geography of Income Inequality and Social Difference • Ivan Townshend, Byron Miller, and Derek Cook 10 People, Policies, and Place: Indigenous and Immigrant Population Shifts in Winnipeg’s Inner-City Neighbourhoods • Jino Distasio and Sarah Zell Part 3: Understanding the Implications of Neighbourhood Change 11 Mapping Canada’s Fragmented Social Policy Space: Plotting Ways to Reverse Trends in Inequality and Segregation through Coordinated Poverty Reduction • Scott Graham, Stephanie Procyk, and Michelynn Laflèche 12 Evaluating Neighbourhood Inequality and Change: Lessons from a National Comparison • Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos References Contributors Index