| ID | 145043 |
| Title Proper | Making place |
| Other Title Information | muslims in the neighbourhood |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jamil, Uzma |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary Islam Vol. 9, No.3; 2015: p.321-335 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary Islam Vol: 9 No 3 |
| Key Words | Place ; Muslims ; Toronto ; Cities |