North end Halifax in transition

Investigations of the have been studied and debated, from causes and consequences of gentrification have expanded effects of the process to articles that only discuss the since the studies of the 1960s and 1970s from semantics of gentrification (see Redfern, 2003). [...] Understanding the terms of how uses and the resultant physical make- processes of redevelopment and gentrification are up of the area are changing, and their impact on crucial for consensus-based community planning, the users of these services. [...] Prior to of Gottingen Street) and the Cogswell Interchange, the suburban growth and large-scale urban renewal and suburban commercial development (such as the projects of the 1960s and 1970s, Gottingen Street Halifax Shopping Centre) of the 1960s initiated the was a thriving commercial and entertainment decline of the number and diversity of businesses district with a diverse residential populatio [...] In an obvious example of the malign neglect performed by the municipality—of which race certainly played a major fac- period, the return of Canadian servicemen and tor—the City of Halifax placed a rail road, an infectious disease women, and the emergence of the automobile led to hospital, and a garbage dump within the Africville community (Erickson, 2004). [...] The dramatic decline of the Street, coupled residents ended up relocating in the Gottingen with the increasing number of services for the Street area around Creighton and Maynard Streets most marginalized populations of Halifax, led to a (traditionally the area with the most established primarily negative perception of Gottingen Street African-Nova Scotian residents) or in public since the postwar