The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)

The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)
The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)
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The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
The local scale.................................................................................................................................3
The urban scale................................................................................................................................5
The global scale...............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)
Introduction
Kensington Market is strategically situated in the suburbs of Toronto city, it’s a neighborhood of
diversity and for the cultural diversity, it has then been considered a historic site of Canada. The
entire area of Kensington is a microcosm of Canada’s diverse, multicultural population, making
it the most preferred area of residence who harvests their daily livelihood either from the Capital
of Toronto or the nearby neighborhoods1.
Figure 1: Transits to Kensington Market
Kensington Market serves as a tourist attraction center in itself, both to Canadians and foreign
visitors. It’s the location to the Westside of the downtown region of Toronto, accessibility to the
1 Jackson, Peter. "Thinking geographically." GEOGRAPHY-LONDON- 91, no. 3 (2016): 199.

The Local And The Global (Kensington Market)
area is magnificent as it is surrounded by transits all around; Dundas Street, Spadina Avenue,
Bathurst street, College street as it is centered along Kensington and Baldwin.
Figure 2: Kensington Market land occupation
The local scale
It’s a fact that both David Hulchanski vividly describes our neighborhood of Kensington in his
publication of ‘The three cities’. Kensington is adversely affected by income polarization2, where
2 Hulchanski, John David. The three cities within Toronto: Income polarization among Toronto's
neighbourhoods, 1970-2000. University of Toronto Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 2007.