Neighbourhood change in Halifax Regional Municipality, 1970 to 2010

The Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership provides an opportunity to investigate the trends and causes of Halifax’s changing geography of income distribution, to assess the goodness-of-fit of the Three Cities model for the Halifax context, and to instigate subsequent research on neighbourhood inequality and polarization in Halifax. [...] The lack of extreme income levels may mask the severity or the character of the problem in smaller cities. [...] In the far north of the Peninsula the African-Canadian settlement of Africville grew along the shore of the Bedford Basin in the 19th century, while another black settlement developed on the Dartmouth side of the harbour in the Prestons (Clairmont and Magill, 1987; Fingard et al, 1999; Nelson, 2008). [...] The overall effect of the clearance of the central redevelopment area was to move poverty out of the urban core to pockets of public housing and to scattered sites of suburban low-rent housing. [...] With the opening of the nearby bridge to Dartmouth in the 1950s, the renewal of the downtown and the construction of a large public housing development in the area in the 1960s, the Gottingen Street Neighbourhood Change in Halifax Regional Municipality,.