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troubles behind me
A nurse passing by said this section of the bridge is used for suicides because of trains passing below. South Parkdale neighbourhood is behind me and she suggested that a relationship exists between suicides here and the gentrification that has been affecting the community over the last decade (there is also an established psychiatric out-patient community).
South Parkdale was once knows as the-village-by-the-lake at the turn of the century, where Toronto's elite could enjoy the lake away from the city and still commute. The Gardiner Expressway cut it off from the lake around the time White Flight was becoming increasingly possible (necessary) for Torontonians in 1940-60s. The community underwent disinvestment - infrastructure, social and community services - until the children of the elite returned, starting in the 90s to transform the community back to its glorious past - while the poor continue to experience disruption, but rather as a scattering, than the concentration effect of the 50s.
Without some form of intervention, social dysfunction might escalate for the disadvantaged since at least before they were in one area, able to form social networks and rely on each other for help, while more easily serviceable by community orgs.
troubles behind me
A nurse passing by said this section of the bridge is used for suicides because of trains passing below. South Parkdale neighbourhood is behind me and she suggested that a relationship exists between suicides here and the gentrification that has been affecting the community over the last decade (there is also an established psychiatric out-patient community).
South Parkdale was once knows as the-village-by-the-lake at the turn of the century, where Toronto's elite could enjoy the lake away from the city and still commute. The Gardiner Expressway cut it off from the lake around the time White Flight was becoming increasingly possible (necessary) for Torontonians in 1940-60s. The community underwent disinvestment - infrastructure, social and community services - until the children of the elite returned, starting in the 90s to transform the community back to its glorious past - while the poor continue to experience disruption, but rather as a scattering, than the concentration effect of the 50s.
Without some form of intervention, social dysfunction might escalate for the disadvantaged since at least before they were in one area, able to form social networks and rely on each other for help, while more easily serviceable by community orgs.