Revitalisation gone wrong: Mixed-income public housing redevelopment in Toronto's Don Mount Court
Revitalisation gone wrong: Mixed-income public housing redevelopment in Toronto's Don Mount Court
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10.1177/0042098015613207
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2016-12-01
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4.7
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August, Martine
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作者：
August, Martine
本文对混合收入公共住房重建的假定仁慈提出了挑战，重点关注加拿大第一个社会混合重建的公共住房，在多伦多的唐山法院（现在称为“河城”）。2002年至2012年间，该社区被拆除，并被重新设计的新城市主义者景观所取代，包括更换公共住房（232个单位）和187个新的公寓联排别墅。虽然混合重建是希望租户将受益于改进的设计和混合收入的互动，这项研究发现，许多居民不太满意他们的住房质量，邻里设计和社会社区重建后。通过深入的定性访谈和民族志参与者观察，本文发现，租户受访者错过了他们的老，更宽敞的家园在前唐山，并沮丧地发现，积极的社区纽带被拆除搬迁和重建。在社会混合政策的核心，许多居民认为仁慈的中产阶级是一个神话，他们报告说，在新的里弗敦，社会关系紧张。此外，新传统的社区重新设计-旨在促进安全和包容性-产生了自相矛盾的影响。许多租户觉得比在现代主义风格的公共住房中更不安全，新城市主义重新设计所带来的相互监督助长了紧张的社区关系。这些发现为考虑混合重建的城市和公共住房当局提供了强烈的警告，并质疑用真实的房地产开发利润为福利国家提供资金的明智性。
This article challenges the presumed benevolence of mixed-income public housing redevelopment, focusing on the first socially-mixed remake of public housing in Canada, at Toronto's Don Mount Court (now called Rivertowne'). Between 2002 and 2012 the community was demolished and replaced with a re-designed New Urbanist' landscape, including replacement of public housing (232 units) and 187 new condominium townhouses. While mixed redevelopment is premised on the hope that tenants will benefit from improved design and mixed-income interactions, this research finds that many residents were less satisfied with the quality of their housing, neighbourhood design, and social community post-redevelopment. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews and ethnographic participant observation, this article finds that tenant interviewees missed their older, more spacious homes in the former Don Mount, and were upset to find that positive community bonds were dismantled by relocation and redevelopment. Challenging the myth of the benevolent middle class' at the heart of social mix policy, many residents reported charged social relations in the new Rivertowne. In addition, the neo-traditional redesign of the community - intended to promote safety and inclusivity - had paradoxical impacts. Many tenants felt less safe than in their modernist-style public housing, and the mutual surveillance enabled by New Urbanist redesign fostered tense community relations. These findings serve as a strong caution for cities and public housing authorities considering mixed redevelopment, and call into question the wisdom of funding welfare state provisions with profits from real estate development.