Cities According to the For You Page

This paper conducts a literature review on the impacts that social media platforms have on gentrification and digital placemaking in cities. The literature review analyzes a series of topics such as community building, big data, selective and exclusionary place marking, and creating new neighborhoods through rebranding on social media with case studies in Toronto, New York City and Los Angles. Recommendations to combat this form of gentrification and exclusionary place making include anti-displacement policies within municipal secondary plans with a case study on the Jane-Finch Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines from the City of Toronto in response to the construction of the Finch light rail transit line being constructed.