Print Email Facebook Twitter Creating 'spaces for diversity' from 'spaces of modernity': The case of the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, Toronto (Canada) Title Creating 'spaces for diversity' from 'spaces of modernity': The case of the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, Toronto (Canada) Author Tasan-Kok, M.T. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-12-31 Abstract Modernist planning and urban development created a lot of residential space without consulting the people who would live in it. It was generally assumed that the professional planner was the best judge of the needs of the community and knew exactly how to meet these needs through physical design: open green space and high-rise, cheap-to-build apartment blocks with fresh air between them. With these and other principles in mind, modernist planning, produced many neighbourhoods and new towns in an attempt to create 'ideal communities and spaces'. Before long, most of these neighbourhoods and towns had lost their charm and had descended into rundown hubs of poverty, racial and ethnic exclusion, criminality and stigmatisation. Toronto is no stranger to this problem. Jane-Finch, a neighbourhood in the north-western corner of the city is one of the products of modernist planning. JaneFinch, as a cheap neighbourhood, houses a large immigrant population and diverse groups, but thanks to its communityplanning tradition, some social transformations are taking place there and turning a stigmatised rundown area into a community hub. This paper discusses the changing social and spatial dynamics in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood and underlines the need to find new planning approaches in order to deal effectively with an increasingly diverse and complex urban society. Subject modernist planningspaces of diversityTorontocommunity planning To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5bc7f042-9e32-418c-aee4-8715436f4908 ISSN 1580-5573 Source Arhitektura, Raziskave, 2015 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) The Author(s)CC BY NC ND Files PDF 326446.pdf 2.52 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5bc7f042-9e32-418c-aee4-8715436f4908/datastream/OBJ/view