Suburb; Slum; Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood ndash; Torontorsquo;s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdalersquo;s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and its post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdalersquo;s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood. Whitzman demonstrates that image and reality have not always correlated for Parkdale. Parkdalersquo;s changing image stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless; this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy; as it contributed to increasingly discriminatory planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century.
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