Governing the Commercial Streets of the City: New Terrains of Disinvestment and Gentrification in Toronto's Inner Suburbs

摘要: This paper explores the commercial shopping street as a site of racialized class struggle. The argument builds around study disinvested inner-suburban neighbourhood in Toronto, which furnishes an ideal case through to achieve paper's objectives of, first, identifying space important contestation over competing suburban futures; second, delineating how processes racialization inform economies gentrification and urban renewal; third, highlighting epistemological theoretical insights that emerge when research is conducted collaboratively, among academic, community, activist groupings. argues such spaces play key role making city accessible vulnerable marginalized groups. Two planning agendas centred on reordering space, meanwhile, spell almost-certain demise arrangements: “real estate” vision featuring new condominium developments, urbanist resistance favouring “green” “creative” alternatives. Our engagements with precarious, predominantly immigrant-owned businesses community-based researchers reveal complicity both modes development displacement structural racism. Specifying these dynamics “racialized projects” opens up for intervention organizing.