7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Part 1: People, Places, Cultures
7. 1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities 15
8. 2. Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space 33
9. 3. 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction? 47
10. 4. Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue 63
11. 5. Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments 82
12. 6. Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form 98
13. Part 2: The Economy of Cities
14. 7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis 131
15. 8. Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto 173
16. 9. The Impact of Global Finance in Urban Structural Change: The International Banking Centre Controversy 195
17. 10. Women and Work in a Canadian Community 215
18. 11. Unemployment and Labour Markets in Hamilton during the Great Depression 239
19. Part 3: Urban Social Movements
20. 12. New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism 263
21. 13. Anti-Racism Organizing and Resistance: Blacks in Urban Canada, 1940s-1970s 282
22. 14. Challenging Spatial Control of the City: Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, and the Environmental Movement 303
23. 15. Victoria Regina: Social Movements and Political Space 324