gentrification

(noun)

A shift in an urban community toward wealthier residents and/or businesses and increasing property values; often resulting in poorer residents being displaced by wealthier newcomers.

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(noun)

The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

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Examples of gentrification in the following topics:

  • Urban Gentrification

    • In Gentrification Amid Urban Decline: Strategies for America's Older Cities, Michael Lang reports on the process and socioeconomic and cultural impact of gentrification in Darien Street in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Philadelphia.
    • In 1977, Philadelphia launched a gentrification effort.
    • Gentrification is often resisted by those displaced by rising rents .
    • This cultural redevelopment is evidence of gentrification.
    • This comedy video raises many critiques of gentrification by parodying the gentrification of Brooklyn, NY.

  • The Process of Urbanization

    • As land prices rise, the local working class may be priced out of the real estate market and pushed into less desirable neighborhoods - a process known as gentrification.