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University of Chicago Urbanism Professor Emily Talen’s book “Neighbourhood.” Ch9 Neighbourhoods and Segregation. “The final and most significant debate about the neighbourhood: its association with social segregation."
Tweets from earlier chapters start here… https://twitter.com/NanaimoCommons/status/1326647941927301120
Most notorious was the redlining undertaken by the U.S. Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Authority. Incredibly, the agencies used an underwriting manual that called for investigating whether a neighbourhood had a mix of “incompatible” social and racial groups.
Planners and developers aided the process by putting in place the deed restrictions, zoning, subdivision regulations, and other land development controls that created the segregated neighbourhoods of postwar suburbanization.
In Toronto between 1970 and 2005, the proportion of middle-income neighbourhoods fell from 66% to 29%, while the proportion of low-income neighbourhoods from from 19% to 53%. ( @Hulchanski The Three Cities Within Toronto)
European cities have much more socialized housing, counteracting the tendency for markets to homogenize housing.
Blog post : Downtown #Nanaimo is rated medium amenity-access density. Surrounded by low population density, low amenity access density in the rest of the city. — @StatCan_eng http://nanaimocommons.blogspot.com/2020/11/where-is-15-minute-city-in-canada-we.html
Studies reveal the "now conventional American urban story: rich neighbourhoods stay rich, poor neighbourhoods stay poor, and middle-income neighbourhoods change up or down—with race determining to a large degree the direction of change.”
For Latinos, one author claimed, “the more dynamic the diversity” the better, neighbourhoods with the “multi” effect: multicultural, multisocial, multigenerational, multi-income, multitenure, multiuse, multihouse types, multidensity, multiarchitectural styles, multitechnology.
Ch10 Conclusion. The “everyday neighbourhood” is what a neighbourhood could be, if based on a traditional understanding that is at the same time cognizant of 21st-century constraints and demands.
It leverages physical form to enable human connection, exchange, and sense of belonging, which in turn provides the capacity to act collectively.
Traditional understanding of neighbourhood as essential infrastructure of daily life was beaten down by a century of negation—on one hand equating neighbourhood w/ any clump of housing on the other trivializing attempt to get the neighbourhood back + render it in physical form.
Attempt to plan neighbourhood back into existence was reaction to the sense it'd been lost to technological economic + social forces. Connectivity + heterogeneity pulled in opposite directions, the localized neighbourhood became a means of social sorting rather than congealing.
