Territorial stigmatization!
Working on a presentation about the "urban renewal" of public housing projects in Toronto and getting so so so angry.
Before I had some misguided and fuzzily unformed kind feelings about redevelopment of Regent Park, Parkdale, Lawrence Heights, etc, but having read the literature I am furious. Clearly an area where theoretical analysis and research is leaps and bounds ahead of praxis.
What the TCHC is doing is outrageous, bordering on the criminal, and the absence* of a movement against "ratepayers' organizations'" domination on the issue speaks to the disarray and marginality of the left.
On the other hand, at least I'm properly excited about Lefebvre now.
*EDIT: actually that's not true for Lawrence Heights. BASICS Community Newsletter has been active there. It's just the Regent Park redevelopment that's been mostly unopposed.
EDIT 2: what's extra depressing about Regent Park is that it happened under the watch of a supposed NDP/progressive mayor. shrug. s'what happens when "you have to pick your battles" or some neoliberal washing of social responsibility hands shit masquerading under pragmatism.
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Before I had some misguided and fuzzily unformed kind feelings about redevelopment of Regent Park, Parkdale, Lawrence Heights, etc, but having read the literature I am furious. Clearly an area where theoretical analysis and research is leaps and bounds ahead of praxis.
What the TCHC is doing is outrageous, bordering on the criminal, and the absence* of a movement against "ratepayers' organizations'" domination on the issue speaks to the disarray and marginality of the left.
On the other hand, at least I'm properly excited about Lefebvre now.
*EDIT: actually that's not true for Lawrence Heights. BASICS Community Newsletter has been active there. It's just the Regent Park redevelopment that's been mostly unopposed.
EDIT 2: what's extra depressing about Regent Park is that it happened under the watch of a supposed NDP/progressive mayor. shrug. s'what happens when "you have to pick your battles" or some neoliberal washing of social responsibility hands shit masquerading under pragmatism.
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