Tag Archives: descriptions and impressions
(1099) GTA race & transit series
A pleasure it is to point you toward a brace of articles about getting around the GTA’s sprawl lands. Oh yeah, it’s also about race.
Race, the ‘burbs, and transportation. In one of the most diverse communities in North America, any discussion about public space and policy needs to include race
spacing.ca/thethnicaisle.com
image: Daniel Hoherd via Flickr/CC
(1072) Suburban poverty in Granola Shotgun blog
Granola Shotgun takes a standpoint of curiosity regarding how Americans inhabit their landscapes. Yes, they got around to suburban-poverty recently. Take some time for a look at their site, the photo content is often quite profound.
(1007) Bantustanada 2040
Counterfactual propositions are most times best avoided. We all are hungry for glimpses of the future, sure. That part is okay. There’s just too much risk of distraction in many a creative “what if” scenario, too much room for wild swings of positive or negative projection. Let’s make an exception today for this dystopic reflection on an imagined socioeconomic existence for Vancouver, BC. Yikes! This can’t be a future anybody wants a part of.
image: via basementgeographer.com – CC
(1000) Suburban poverty podcast
We were thinking a powerful overview would be nice for suburban-poverty.com’s 1000th posting. We came across exactly that in the form of a podcast from US academic Scott Allard.
The suburbanization of U.S. poverty
(August 2016) 19:03
Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin
(975) 1980s social housing [Excerpt from Subdivided]
Truth for smug Canadians via moments of return from writer Jay Pitter as she walks the Toronto social housing complex she lived in during the 1980s. Excerpted from Subdivided, City-Building In An Age of Hyperdiversity, a new release from Coach House Press.
A visit to the social housing community of my childhood
nowtoronto.com
(955) Fairfax descending
Fairfax County, Virginia is probably still a great place to be a loaded, property-owning American. But, it does sound like it just isn’t quite what it used to be financially, or otherwise, and in that it seems to point to the trend for most of the country’s aging suburbs.
This model of wealthy suburban living is starting to fray
washingtonpost.com
(832) Hampcompton, USA
Two US ‘burbs. A continent between them. Both household names.
image: screen grab theguardian.com
(827) Motel hell
All over North America people in social difficulty are often put into motels by welfare agencies or some combination of unfortunate randomness. Here’s an essay on what that can be like.
My time in motel hell: Scenes from America’s housing crisis
fusion.net
image: Phillip Pessar via Flickr/CC
(791) East to west
Looking to get real to the “challenges and joys of life in Toronto’s suburbs”? We thought so!