{"id":1278,"date":"2006-10-25T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2006-10-25T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T02:01:37","slug":"gentrify-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/10\/25\/gentrify-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentrify this"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years in Toronto about the gentrification of formerly “ethnic” and low-income neighbourhoods in west-central Toronto, such as Kensington Market<\/a>, College Street and Queen Street West. In many cases, the process starts with “bohemianization” — the areas are first infiltrated by hip independent stores and art galleries that are oriented towards “creative” types. With this in mind, a recent satirical story in The Onion<\/em> which sends up this whole process, “Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood<\/a>,” seems like it was made for Toronto.<\/p>\n

The story is also a clever send-up of a big idea that has been making the rounds, the “Creative Cities” concept championed by urban guru Richard Florida<\/a> in his book The Rise of the Creative Class<\/em>. Florida argues that creative people in business, technology and the arts will be the driving force of economic growth in the new century, and that they are attracted to cities that have a lively “bohemian” arts scene. The report on Toronto as a creative city released this summer, “Imagine Toronto … Strategies for a Creative City<\/a>” was very much a product of these ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years in Toronto about the gentrification of formerly “ethnic” and low-income neighbourhoods in west-central Toronto, such as Kensington Market, College Street and Queen Street West. 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