November 29, 2007
Regent Park is undergoing historic change.
In a matter of 10-15 years, Canada's oldest social housing project will be completely "revitalized," short-hand for torn down and built up again.
Our multimedia gateway, Home Is Where the Park Is, offers a snapshot of Regent Park in the Fall of 2007, shortly before the completion of revitalization's Phase One. The faces, voices and stories you will find here depict Toronto's most diverse community as few in the general public have seen it: in turn empowered and disenfranchised, vibrant and gray, dynamic and downtrodden.
Burdened with associations of crime and poverty, many Regent Park residents are suspicious of the media, with their tendency to exploit the neighbourhood for sensational coverage of the city's poor.
Global360 reporters descended on Regent Park with notepads, cameras and camcorders and, over the course of 12 weeks, built a profile of the community.
As members of Ryerson University's online reporting class, they worked in concert to create an accurate and informative portrayal of Regent Park and its residents.
Check it out, and give them your feedback by posting a comment to this blog.
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