Changing Neighbourhoods

Jill L. Grant is a professor emeritus of planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She is the author or editor of five books and of dozens of scholarly articles. She has received several awards from the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and has had articles included in prize-winning collections selected by the World Planning Schools Association. Alan Walks is a professor of urban geography and planning at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous scholarly articles related to urban inequality, gentrification, financialization, electoral geography, neighbourhood change, and housing policy, among other things. He is the editor of The Political Economy and Ecology of Automobolity: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics (2015), and co-editor of The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (2013).Howard Ramos is a professor of sociology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is author or editor of four books. He has published on a wide range of social justice issues ranging from political mobilization, to human rights and equity issues, and perceptions of change.

• Foreword / Janet L. SmithPrefacePart 1: Exploring Neighbourhood Change1 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change: Context, Concept, and Process / Larry S. Bourne and J. David Hulchanski2 Plus ça Change: Neighbourhood Inequality in Canadian Cities since 1900 / Richard Harris3 Using Social Dimensions and Neighbourhood Typologies to Characterize Neighbourhood Change / Ivan Townshend and Robert MurdiePart 2: Investigating Neighbourhood Change in Canada4 Inequality and Neighbourhood Change in the Greater Toronto Region / Alan Walks5 Montreal: The Changing Drivers of Inequality between Neighbourhoods / Xavier Leloup and Damaris Rose6 The Social Geography of Uneven Incomes in Metropolitan Vancouver / David Ley and Nicholas Lynch7 Hamilton: Poster Child for Concentrated Poverty / Richard Harris8 Halifax: Scaling Inequality / Jill L. Grant and Howard Ramos9 Neighbourhood Change in Calgary: An Evolving Geography of Income Inequality and Social Difference / Ivan Townshend, Byron Miller, and Derek Cook10 People, Policies, and Place: Indigenous and Immigrant Population Shift s in Winnipeg's Inner-City Neighbourhoods / Jino Distasio and Sarah ZellPart 3: Understanding the Implications of Neighbourhood Change11 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 Laflèche12 Evaluating Neighbourhood Inequality and Change: Lessons from a National Comparison / Jill L. Grant, Alan Walks, and Howard RamosReferences; Contributors; Index

Overall, this is an important work for social geography and urban studies.- M.E. Pfeifer (CHOICE Connect) Changing Neighbourhoods provides a timely and significant contribution to our understanding of the causes and consequences of social change at the neighbourhood level. - Joshua Harold, Humber College ITAL (Canadian Jewish Studies)