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Making place: Muslims in the neighbourhood.
- Source :
- Contemporary Islam; Sep2015, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p321-335, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Regent Park was built with great optimism in the 1950s as a public housing neighbourhood in Toronto. Over the years, however, it has come to be seen as a failure of this ideal and stigmatized as a poor, crime-ridden, violent neighbourhood with large numbers of visible minorities and immigrants. Recent urban revitalization efforts have aimed to transform the physical space as well as to re-brand the neighbourhood in more positive ways as part of a diverse, multicultural city. This paper critically considers the construction of meaning of Regent Park as a place, between the external representations of the city's urban developers and the internal, 'lived experiences' of its Muslim residents. It analyses the construction of meaning of Regent Park as a Muslim place within the representation of Toronto as a Canadian, multicultural city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MUSLIMS
PUBLIC housing
NEIGHBORHOODS
MULTICULTURALISM
MINORITIES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18720218
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Islam
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110338885
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-015-0346-y