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Gentrification and Familism in Toronto: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom
Author(s) -
Caulfield Jon
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1992.6.1.76
Subject(s) - gentrification , context (archaeology) , sociology , everyday life , preference , inner city , gender studies , space (punctuation) , economic growth , geography , political science , socioeconomics , economics , law , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , microeconomics
THE PROCESS LABELED "gentrification" has often been conceived as a nonfamilial housing form within the framework of a role‐emphasis model of residential choice. Exploratory fieldwork done in Toronto, however, suggests that some "gentrifiers" find inner‐city housing highly congruent with child rearing and that inner‐city residential preference is a holistic matter that is not reducible to role emphasis. These findings are interpreted in the context of an understanding of the construction of urban space that dissents from economistic paradigms and stresses the importance of the culture of everyday life, [gentrification, familism, housing, Toronto]