2004
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Lien social et Politiques ; no. 52 (2004)
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Anne Séguin et al., « La lutte territorialisée contre la pauvreté : examen critique du modèle de revitalisation urbaine intégrée », Lien social et Politiques, ID : 10.7202/010590ar
For a number of years in Quebec and Canada as well as several other places (particularly France, the United Kingdom and the United States) there has been growing attention to poor neighbourhoods within large metropolitan areas. One response has been the development of policies that can be labelled generically as an “integrated urban revitalization approach.” This model was recently deployed as pilot projects in three micro-zones in Montreal. Therefore, a critical examination of the general form of the model is appropriate, in the form of an analysis of two axioms of the model and the stumbling blocks. The first axiom is that the local society can and must take itself in hand. The second is that fighting concentrated urban poverty requires improving standards to conform better to local norms. The article ends with attention to the relative importance of a place-based anti-poverty strategy within the larger set of anti-poverty programmes.