We all agree both have merit. They both are part of separate budgets of separate departments and exclusive to each other. You lobby for one and lobby for the other. I don't see any conflict here. We want them both.
The earlier comment about giving land to private citizens is inaccurate and obviously ill-informed. Taking an unneeded hundred feet of pavement and creating a community garden follows a continent wide trend that has support from from all sides. I suggest looking it up online for more info.
AGREE: our community library does need a reno and a larger space. But please let us discuss COMPROMISES for all projects and avoid another win-lose attitude for projects that will really benefit many people.
When I was speaking with Carmen, the librarian at a meeting last week. She was expressing her fustration how over crowded the library is,even more so how an extention is so badly needed for the library. Many library's in davenport( Gladstone, st clair & duffern) has had some kind of renovation, except dupont/perth. So before we start to break asphalt and make gardens, I would like to see the cost. I would also love to see some of the money go to the library at perth and dupont. Something that can be used by everyone and which is open all year round.
Less pavement and more green, a learning opportunity for kids, and a place for community members to meet and know beach other. A long overdue development that I hope spreads to some other asphalt spots in the area.
They are not a business but the staff there does a great job at reaching out to the community. I am so happy they are in our hood. We should have a library appreciation day.
Besides having good beer, tasty food, and very friendly staff/owners, Boo Radley's has reached out and offered to help community groups for the past few years.
When the SJTRA was still active, Boo's emailed us several times offering meeting space etc. Free coffee too. I wish we took them up on it! They have also offered to hold Railpath parties and other events. I'm sure they'd be happy to accommodate any community group who needs a space to meet up.
It's great to have businesses like Boo's (and others like Yasi's Place) who give back to the community.
Of course I am biased about Boo's because I know them but they are one of the new establishments reaching out and being part of the community. Before them there was no place nearby I could take my mom or my wife for a pint and no there are a few. When Dupont comes to life again it is the hardy believers like Mike and Shelly at Boo's that will deserve our praise.
School is just around the corner for most of us! The daily lunch box dilemma shall begin. Here are a few links with many lunch box ideas for the kids and perhaps for ourselves too. Peanut free recipes abound.
That's great, Julian. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. Maybe we can put together some photo-essays on various neighbourhood locations/topics/etc.
At the moment the images are generally of the railpath. Being a Graphic Designer I quite enjoy photography and love some of the unique and photogenic qualities of our neighbourhood. When I have a chance I will forward you some images that you can post at your discretion.
The Railpath is a project encompassing the entire west end from Strachan hopefully up to Weston one day. It has been in the works for over 10 years and was partially initiated by residents who lived here then. The Railpath is a product of this community.
The bike lanes on Dupont are part of a way behind schedule plan that is City wide and and has been supported by residents who live in our community many years. You can find them on cycling websites and blogs. Bike lanes on Dupont is not an idea that came up recently.
One of the main artists on the Dupont mural grew up in this community and community members were talked to for ideas. ArtStarts like DigIN (which is very local) is about residents contributing to and beautifying communities. A very ground level up approach to community building. ArtStarts has done other projects in the community and its director lives in this community.
These projects are all ones that germinated here in this community over quite a few years. Sneering at them and calling them gentrification and using divisive words like "hipsters" (whatever that means) is an insult to this community. Have your opinion but at least get the history and origin of these projects correct.
I don't understand why John had to be so nasty to Ramos. Boy John, so we have some angry issues or maybe we touched a little nerve. I totally understand were Ramos is coming from, there are many people in this community who might feel the same as Ramos. Just remember when we speak about community and what that means. There are many in this community who have history and are very much part of this community and we should be sensitive to them. I have a few clients here, who were once upon a time involved and who grew there children here, and worked very hard to achive this, individuals who are now retired and are barley making it and wish they can be part of the discussion. But still hope they can be represented some how. My mother still lives here are she told me about this web site from others who told her. I read a bit, boy this does not feel like a community. People like Kevin Putman, Scott, John and a few others also those who left there names out, chill out.
Blame developers who follow hipsters and artists around when they start looking for new areas in the city to redevelop. Remember, artists get priced out of low rents AFTER they move into an area too.
There's a big economic difference between those MAKING art and the people who BUY art. The artists I know do not BUY art for their ever growing collection that will someday be donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario. They barter or trade their works between each other. As an art major myself, I can tell you I barely made a living making art work, I had a day job to help pay the rent when I tried and the operative word here is TRIED to stay an artist, it wasn't easy.
Art making has its place in society. It can be very political and can give a voice to the voiceless. Most artists will NEVER end up having their work shown in the AGO and yet there's something in them that keeps them creating more. I admire that. Not all art made is created for home decorating consumption, although all designers will find inspiration wherever they can.
Issues of poverty, high rents and high property taxes go way beyond a few murals and some bike lanes being funded. There's corporate welfare, institutionalized and systemic racism, foreign degrees not being recognized, the barriers to upgrading a foreign degrees, etc...Then there are issues of mental illness and substance abuse that keep some people living in poverty.
The world is unfair -- luck, circumstances and opportunities -- and it's hard to fight all those issues. We can only do the best we can to remind developers to build more affordable housing, remind politicians NOT to favour corporate interests over the general public and remind other voters that there is a world that exists made up of people who are not as lucky.
I too grew up here and have watched this neighbourhood go down hill, about 15 years ago, and now it is on the up curve. Some of my neighbours have lived here all their lives and some moved in a month ago and we try to talk to everyone. It is true that people do not stay in a neighbourhood their whole lives like they
used to but that is the same for most communities now a days. I know people who by a house and say "I will probably stay here for about 5 years". By meeting our neighbours, young and old, we can steer away from the bedroom community. What I don't like is the people who scowl when someone new moves in. These are your neighbours and if something should happen, like it did 11 days ago in Vaughan, your neighbours will be the ones who will help you.
I share some of your thoughts on this matter with you, cuz like you I grew up here. We were immigrants. Both parents worked in Factories - up until 3yrs ago I believe and we came here 82'. I've pretty much kept my mouth shut on this, because things change there is no fighting it - see the posts on Dump Sites for an example (its an uphill battle).
The Mural as it stands looks good, I like it, I guess - better then the concrete. Would I have like to see something different? maybe, but that would mean I would have to take part in the process, didn't know it was happening.
All in all things change, even neighborhoods. Some loose their identity some gain a new one. This neighborhood is defintely changing. I see it on the streets daily. For the better or worse? Depends on how people see it or who you ask. Older residences may see it's differently. My view: yes, it's changing. For the better? yes and no. The yes: less crime and prosititution, evident at Lansdowne and Bloor. The no: people I grew up with are no longer around. Less of a community feeling as there is turnover with neighbors who you were around for decades. People are aging in this community and are moving out. It will take time to get that same feeling back I guess. Until then I'll just keep watching my Prop Taxes rise - pure bush!
You only have to go as far as this website (courtesy of the City of Toronto archives) to see a photo from 1920 when bicycles outnumbered automobiles around Perth Square Park: https://www.junctiontriangle.ca/node/233?size=_original
H.A. Lozier & Co. opened a bicycle manufacturing plant in The Junction in 1895. This was merged into CCM (Canadian Cycle and Motor Co.) in 1899. Massey-Harris and Gendron Bicycles also moved some bike manufacturing to The Junction in the HA Lozier factory. In 1917, this was moved farther away to a CCM plant in Weston.
We actually have some pretty good examples of bike usage and history around here.
When did bicycles become the enemy ? Everyday I see hundreds of people on the railpath of all types and incomes from all over the area. People meeting new people and being active. Hello, this is a good thing and not part of some kind of class war. Before Portuguese and Italians there were Ukrainians and before them Irish and Scots and that history lives on in street names and many other ways and one thing is for sure, all neighborhoods change over time and there nothing you can do about it. Communities can also look forward too and why shouldn't this community (as most western societies are doing) promote activity that is comparatively cheap, green, and healthy? Bicycles, if you look it up at the West Toronto Historical Society, were the original mass transit for the working person in this area.
Wow John.... your psychoanalysis of me from the one post I had made is truly breathtaking. Did you major in psych at your university?
Do you think I'm wrong for thinking there should have been a montage for the people who developed that neighbourhood instead of cyclists? For the people who actually took up residence there, when no one else would, because it wasn't cool enough?
You really think my post was fear? If you really do, then your naivete is even more apparent. Fear is experienced when you're getting beat up while your bike is stolen from you. Fear is when you freeze when you see someone pull a gun out in front of you. Fear is sweating bricks when you have someone say to you, "its been too long since I beat the shit out of someone" while you're walking by their house. That John... is fear. Not a fucking montage to cyclists.
If you were raised in a real Toronto low-income working class hood, you might have experienced this "fear", John. But I highly doubt it. I have my degree as well (crazy eh? that someone raised in this hood has one, right?), and I also work in the Social Services and God knows, we might have even crossed paths. So who knows, maybe a value village clothes wearing hipster on his road bike might make headway in the Pelham Park housing projects full of immigrants and visible minorities. You would fit right in! Or will you be safe in your social services office, processing paperwork? or in your apartment south of Dupont or in the junction right beside 11 division?
Do I consider them nobler than you? No comment, you might be a cool person, you do work in social services. But when you have hipsters who complain about not receiving enough art funding from the government when you have entire families living in cockroach infested social housing, and still working 40 hrs/week at minimum wage and barely surviving, you can't help but understand my contempt. Money for social housing? or for the arts? Hmmm.
For someone who works in the social services, I'm pretty upset by your condescending words about gathering my neighbours, who work hard all week and barely earn enough to pay their bills and feed their families, and get them to contribute to buying up land to keep the condo developments at bay, so their property taxes don't rise over what they can afford. Because believe it or not, we don't want to move to Jane and Finch either. But, out of sight, out of mind right John? No way we can bother you then.
What I hear from such rants about "hipsters", "cyclists" and "not my neighbourhood" comments is fear. Fear of change. Change that may feel out of one's control rather then see the positive aspects of change. As the old saying goes, change is a part of life.
As a new resident-cycling-renter, you've made it perfectly clear that MY KIND is not wanted. My parents' working class background that raised me to have the opportunity to get a university degree, with a full time social services job kind of person is not wanted in this neighbourhood. Why? Because I am considered a hipster displacing the former working class residents that are more nobler than my Value Village clothing clad newbie body.
Unless long-time residents can start screening who moves into this area by building a wall around the neighbourhood and appointing a council of elders to run the place like a fiefdom, then o.k. this area will remain the same. OR all the long-time residents can start pooling their money together and start buying up former industrial sites for millions, keep them staffed yourselves and apply to the province of Ontario so that you can separate from the City of Toronto and become a self-contained village -- then I'm very sorry Ramos change happens. I'm sorry you are fearful of it.
Mixed income neighbourhoods tend to have many more benefits for all:
“Our research suggests that both affluent and lower-income families benefit from each other’s presence,” says lead author Richard Carpiano of UBC’s Department of Sociology.
Researchers say this increased community socioeconomic diversity benefits the development of its young children because it increases the opportunity for a wider range of residents to invest in the community.
“These more diverse communities may have a wider variety of services and amenities than places with higher concentrations of either affluent or low-income families, and thus may be able to better serve the needs of a wider range of families and children,” Carpiano says.
The findings are published in the August issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine.
"The studies have demonstrated that mixed income communities can give low-income residents access to successful environments. Although a minority of better-off households may have negative views, most are either neutral or prefer mixed income communities."
I grew up just north of that bridge, right beside the Pelham Park housing projects on Osler street, I went to St. Rita and had friends and rivalries with Carlton Village and St. Luigi and I personally feel that this montage is out of place. It in no way reflects the community that I grew up in. You were the lucky kid if you grew up having a bike that lasted you the year or if it wasn't stolen by the end of the year in that neighbourhood. So why would we embrace a montage to bikes? A montage to the Portuguese, Italian, Black and Latin communities who dominated the neighbourhood before the gentrification of the Junction and the arrival of the yuppies and hipsters would have been more relevant, in my opinion.
My community relied on the TTC and carpools in order to get our parents to work at the construction yards, factories, cleaning jobs, retail stores, and all those other low paying menial work that low-income and immigrant families usually end up doing. They did not rely on bikes and Dupont street was not a bike haven. I can go on and on about it, but there's not much I can do now, now that this mural is up and it says nothing about my community and its history. Wgich in my opinion is a real shame. Last time I checked, hipsters didn't live in my hood until about 2 years ago and yet it reeks of it now. Like with gentrification anywhere, it's "developing and cleaning up" the neighbourhood, but at what cost?
We all agree both have merit. They both are part of separate budgets of separate departments and exclusive to each other. You lobby for one and lobby for the other. I don't see any conflict here. We want them both.
The earlier comment about giving land to private citizens is inaccurate and obviously ill-informed. Taking an unneeded hundred feet of pavement and creating a community garden follows a continent wide trend that has support from from all sides. I suggest looking it up online for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening
Next up, Community compost.
AGREE: our community library does need a reno and a larger space. But please let us discuss COMPROMISES for all projects and avoid another win-lose attitude for projects that will really benefit many people.
Both projects have merit.
Please not this again!
When I was speaking with Carmen, the librarian at a meeting last week. She was expressing her fustration how over crowded the library is,even more so how an extention is so badly needed for the library. Many library's in davenport( Gladstone, st clair & duffern) has had some kind of renovation, except dupont/perth. So before we start to break asphalt and make gardens, I would like to see the cost. I would also love to see some of the money go to the library at perth and dupont. Something that can be used by everyone and which is open all year round.
Taking public space and turning it over to private citizens is not progress. And invoking children is patronizing and exploitative.
Less pavement and more green, a learning opportunity for kids, and a place for community members to meet and know beach other. A long overdue development that I hope spreads to some other asphalt spots in the area.
They are not a business but the staff there does a great job at reaching out to the community. I am so happy they are in our hood. We should have a library appreciation day.
Besides having good beer, tasty food, and very friendly staff/owners, Boo Radley's has reached out and offered to help community groups for the past few years.
When the SJTRA was still active, Boo's emailed us several times offering meeting space etc. Free coffee too. I wish we took them up on it! They have also offered to hold Railpath parties and other events. I'm sure they'd be happy to accommodate any community group who needs a space to meet up.
It's great to have businesses like Boo's (and others like Yasi's Place) who give back to the community.
Of course I am biased about Boo's because I know them but they are one of the new establishments reaching out and being part of the community. Before them there was no place nearby I could take my mom or my wife for a pint and no there are a few. When Dupont comes to life again it is the hardy believers like Mike and Shelly at Boo's that will deserve our praise.
Oatmeal Pancakes
½ cup rolled oats
¾ cup milk
¼ cup flour
pinch salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 egg
1 tsp. sugar
* may add a tablespoon of wheat germ, bran or flaxseed
1. Soak the rolled oats in milk until softened, about half an hour
2. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Add rolled oats to dry ingredients and then add slightly beaten egg.
4. Mix until everything is incorporated.
Double recipe to include adult portions.
School is just around the corner for most of us! The daily lunch box dilemma shall begin. Here are a few links with many lunch box ideas for the kids and perhaps for ourselves too. Peanut free recipes abound.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/lunch+box+ideas
http://www.school-lunch-ideas.com/Peanut_Free_School_Lunch_Ideas.html
http://www.parenting.com/recipes-gallery/Recipes/10-Fresh-Lunchbox-Ideas
That's great, Julian. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. Maybe we can put together some photo-essays on various neighbourhood locations/topics/etc.
Cheers,
Vic
Hi Vic,
At the moment the images are generally of the railpath. Being a Graphic Designer I quite enjoy photography and love some of the unique and photogenic qualities of our neighbourhood. When I have a chance I will forward you some images that you can post at your discretion.
Cheers
Looks like it"s been appealed to the Board. Case PL090733.
The Railpath is a project encompassing the entire west end from Strachan hopefully up to Weston one day. It has been in the works for over 10 years and was partially initiated by residents who lived here then. The Railpath is a product of this community.
The bike lanes on Dupont are part of a way behind schedule plan that is City wide and and has been supported by residents who live in our community many years. You can find them on cycling websites and blogs. Bike lanes on Dupont is not an idea that came up recently.
One of the main artists on the Dupont mural grew up in this community and community members were talked to for ideas. ArtStarts like DigIN (which is very local) is about residents contributing to and beautifying communities. A very ground level up approach to community building. ArtStarts has done other projects in the community and its director lives in this community.
These projects are all ones that germinated here in this community over quite a few years. Sneering at them and calling them gentrification and using divisive words like "hipsters" (whatever that means) is an insult to this community. Have your opinion but at least get the history and origin of these projects correct.
I don't understand why John had to be so nasty to Ramos. Boy John, so we have some angry issues or maybe we touched a little nerve. I totally understand were Ramos is coming from, there are many people in this community who might feel the same as Ramos. Just remember when we speak about community and what that means. There are many in this community who have history and are very much part of this community and we should be sensitive to them. I have a few clients here, who were once upon a time involved and who grew there children here, and worked very hard to achive this, individuals who are now retired and are barley making it and wish they can be part of the discussion. But still hope they can be represented some how. My mother still lives here are she told me about this web site from others who told her. I read a bit, boy this does not feel like a community. People like Kevin Putman, Scott, John and a few others also those who left there names out, chill out.
Blame developers who follow hipsters and artists around when they start looking for new areas in the city to redevelop. Remember, artists get priced out of low rents AFTER they move into an area too.
There's a big economic difference between those MAKING art and the people who BUY art. The artists I know do not BUY art for their ever growing collection that will someday be donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario. They barter or trade their works between each other. As an art major myself, I can tell you I barely made a living making art work, I had a day job to help pay the rent when I tried and the operative word here is TRIED to stay an artist, it wasn't easy.
Art making has its place in society. It can be very political and can give a voice to the voiceless. Most artists will NEVER end up having their work shown in the AGO and yet there's something in them that keeps them creating more. I admire that. Not all art made is created for home decorating consumption, although all designers will find inspiration wherever they can.
Issues of poverty, high rents and high property taxes go way beyond a few murals and some bike lanes being funded. There's corporate welfare, institutionalized and systemic racism, foreign degrees not being recognized, the barriers to upgrading a foreign degrees, etc...Then there are issues of mental illness and substance abuse that keep some people living in poverty.
The world is unfair -- luck, circumstances and opportunities -- and it's hard to fight all those issues. We can only do the best we can to remind developers to build more affordable housing, remind politicians NOT to favour corporate interests over the general public and remind other voters that there is a world that exists made up of people who are not as lucky.
I too grew up here and have watched this neighbourhood go down hill, about 15 years ago, and now it is on the up curve. Some of my neighbours have lived here all their lives and some moved in a month ago and we try to talk to everyone. It is true that people do not stay in a neighbourhood their whole lives like they
used to but that is the same for most communities now a days. I know people who by a house and say "I will probably stay here for about 5 years". By meeting our neighbours, young and old, we can steer away from the bedroom community. What I don't like is the people who scowl when someone new moves in. These are your neighbours and if something should happen, like it did 11 days ago in Vaughan, your neighbours will be the ones who will help you.
Hey Ramos,
I share some of your thoughts on this matter with you, cuz like you I grew up here. We were immigrants. Both parents worked in Factories - up until 3yrs ago I believe and we came here 82'. I've pretty much kept my mouth shut on this, because things change there is no fighting it - see the posts on Dump Sites for an example (its an uphill battle).
The Mural as it stands looks good, I like it, I guess - better then the concrete. Would I have like to see something different? maybe, but that would mean I would have to take part in the process, didn't know it was happening.
All in all things change, even neighborhoods. Some loose their identity some gain a new one. This neighborhood is defintely changing. I see it on the streets daily. For the better or worse? Depends on how people see it or who you ask. Older residences may see it's differently. My view: yes, it's changing. For the better? yes and no. The yes: less crime and prosititution, evident at Lansdowne and Bloor. The no: people I grew up with are no longer around. Less of a community feeling as there is turnover with neighbors who you were around for decades. People are aging in this community and are moving out. It will take time to get that same feeling back I guess. Until then I'll just keep watching my Prop Taxes rise - pure bush!
Ranajit
You only have to go as far as this website (courtesy of the City of Toronto archives) to see a photo from 1920 when bicycles outnumbered automobiles around Perth Square Park:
https://www.junctiontriangle.ca/node/233?size=_original
Cyclist at Davenport and Uxbridge, 1914:
http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource...
Cyclist at Davenport and Wiltshire, 1923:
http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource...
H.A. Lozier & Co. opened a bicycle manufacturing plant in The Junction in 1895. This was merged into CCM (Canadian Cycle and Motor Co.) in 1899. Massey-Harris and Gendron Bicycles also moved some bike manufacturing to The Junction in the HA Lozier factory. In 1917, this was moved farther away to a CCM plant in Weston.
We actually have some pretty good examples of bike usage and history around here.
When did bicycles become the enemy ? Everyday I see hundreds of people on the railpath of all types and incomes from all over the area. People meeting new people and being active. Hello, this is a good thing and not part of some kind of class war. Before Portuguese and Italians there were Ukrainians and before them Irish and Scots and that history lives on in street names and many other ways and one thing is for sure, all neighborhoods change over time and there nothing you can do about it. Communities can also look forward too and why shouldn't this community (as most western societies are doing) promote activity that is comparatively cheap, green, and healthy? Bicycles, if you look it up at the West Toronto Historical Society, were the original mass transit for the working person in this area.
Wow John.... your psychoanalysis of me from the one post I had made is truly breathtaking. Did you major in psych at your university?
Do you think I'm wrong for thinking there should have been a montage for the people who developed that neighbourhood instead of cyclists? For the people who actually took up residence there, when no one else would, because it wasn't cool enough?
You really think my post was fear? If you really do, then your naivete is even more apparent. Fear is experienced when you're getting beat up while your bike is stolen from you. Fear is when you freeze when you see someone pull a gun out in front of you. Fear is sweating bricks when you have someone say to you, "its been too long since I beat the shit out of someone" while you're walking by their house. That John... is fear. Not a fucking montage to cyclists.
If you were raised in a real Toronto low-income working class hood, you might have experienced this "fear", John. But I highly doubt it. I have my degree as well (crazy eh? that someone raised in this hood has one, right?), and I also work in the Social Services and God knows, we might have even crossed paths. So who knows, maybe a value village clothes wearing hipster on his road bike might make headway in the Pelham Park housing projects full of immigrants and visible minorities. You would fit right in! Or will you be safe in your social services office, processing paperwork? or in your apartment south of Dupont or in the junction right beside 11 division?
Do I consider them nobler than you? No comment, you might be a cool person, you do work in social services. But when you have hipsters who complain about not receiving enough art funding from the government when you have entire families living in cockroach infested social housing, and still working 40 hrs/week at minimum wage and barely surviving, you can't help but understand my contempt. Money for social housing? or for the arts? Hmmm.
For someone who works in the social services, I'm pretty upset by your condescending words about gathering my neighbours, who work hard all week and barely earn enough to pay their bills and feed their families, and get them to contribute to buying up land to keep the condo developments at bay, so their property taxes don't rise over what they can afford. Because believe it or not, we don't want to move to Jane and Finch either. But, out of sight, out of mind right John? No way we can bother you then.
What I hear from such rants about "hipsters", "cyclists" and "not my neighbourhood" comments is fear. Fear of change. Change that may feel out of one's control rather then see the positive aspects of change. As the old saying goes, change is a part of life.
As a new resident-cycling-renter, you've made it perfectly clear that MY KIND is not wanted. My parents' working class background that raised me to have the opportunity to get a university degree, with a full time social services job kind of person is not wanted in this neighbourhood. Why? Because I am considered a hipster displacing the former working class residents that are more nobler than my Value Village clothing clad newbie body.
Unless long-time residents can start screening who moves into this area by building a wall around the neighbourhood and appointing a council of elders to run the place like a fiefdom, then o.k. this area will remain the same. OR all the long-time residents can start pooling their money together and start buying up former industrial sites for millions, keep them staffed yourselves and apply to the province of Ontario so that you can separate from the City of Toronto and become a self-contained village -- then I'm very sorry Ramos change happens. I'm sorry you are fearful of it.
Mixed income neighbourhoods tend to have many more benefits for all:
1.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2009/mr-09-090.html
Economically Diverse Neighbourhoods Best for Early Childhood Development: UBC Study
“Our research suggests that both affluent and lower-income families benefit from each other’s presence,” says lead author Richard Carpiano of UBC’s Department of Sociology.
Researchers say this increased community socioeconomic diversity benefits the development of its young children because it increases the opportunity for a wider range of residents to invest in the community.
“These more diverse communities may have a wider variety of services and amenities than places with higher concentrations of either affluent or low-income families, and thus may be able to better serve the needs of a wider range of families and children,” Carpiano says.
The findings are published in the August issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine.
2.
http://neighbourhoods.typepad.com/neighbourhoods/2006/03/mixed_tenure_an...
"The studies have demonstrated that mixed income communities can give low-income residents access to successful environments. Although a minority of better-off households may have negative views, most are either neutral or prefer mixed income communities."
I grew up just north of that bridge, right beside the Pelham Park housing projects on Osler street, I went to St. Rita and had friends and rivalries with Carlton Village and St. Luigi and I personally feel that this montage is out of place. It in no way reflects the community that I grew up in. You were the lucky kid if you grew up having a bike that lasted you the year or if it wasn't stolen by the end of the year in that neighbourhood. So why would we embrace a montage to bikes? A montage to the Portuguese, Italian, Black and Latin communities who dominated the neighbourhood before the gentrification of the Junction and the arrival of the yuppies and hipsters would have been more relevant, in my opinion.
My community relied on the TTC and carpools in order to get our parents to work at the construction yards, factories, cleaning jobs, retail stores, and all those other low paying menial work that low-income and immigrant families usually end up doing. They did not rely on bikes and Dupont street was not a bike haven. I can go on and on about it, but there's not much I can do now, now that this mural is up and it says nothing about my community and its history. Wgich in my opinion is a real shame. Last time I checked, hipsters didn't live in my hood until about 2 years ago and yet it reeks of it now. Like with gentrification anywhere, it's "developing and cleaning up" the neighbourhood, but at what cost?
Hi Julian,
The photo gallery is only open to website contributors. You can email me photos at info@southjunctiontriangle.ca and I can post them.
If you would like to contribute photos (or anything else!) to the website on an ongoing basis, we can also arrange further access.
What kind of photos do you want to post?
Cheers,
Vic