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Originally Posted by savevp
As an interesting contrast, Australian cities tend to reverse this. The 'Wests' are the working class areas usually. Different hemisphere I guess  |
Prevailing winds being opposite in the southern hemisphere, I'd guess. I don't know anything about industrial development in Australia, but in some Canadian cities there were factories right near the centre of town! In Hamilton for sure, so the neighbourhoods to the "east" were subject to poor air quality and air pollution. And this continued when the gigantic steel-based industrial complex grew along the city's eastern bayfront shoreline, though as urban development spread it became less of a pollution source for the communities that went up in the far "east" (really southeast and ESE, given the geography).
Hamilton has some "affluent" historical housing that's not far eastward of the downtown, but it's closer to the Niagara Escarpment and may have avoided the fallout from industries in the core when they existed.