1. GENTRIFICATION
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2. WHAT ABOUT GENTRIFICATION?
● Gentrification is a dynamic that emerges in poor urban areas
● Gentrification is a dynamic that emerges in poor urban areas
when residential shifts, urban planning, and other phenomena
when residential shifts, urban planning, and other phenomena
affect the composition of a neighborhood.
affect the composition of a neighborhood.
● Urban gentrification often involves population migration as poor
● Urban gentrification often involves population migration as poor
residents of a neighborhood are displaced.This generally results in
residents of a neighborhood are displaced.This generally results in
the displacement of the poorer, pre-gentrification residents, who are
the displacement of the poorer, pre-gentrification residents, who are
unable to pay increased rents, and property taxes, or afford real
unable to pay increased rents, and property taxes, or afford real
estate.
estate.
● Often old industrial buildings are converted to residences and shops.
● Often old industrial buildings are converted to residences and shops.
New businesses cater to a more affluent base of consumers. Often,
New businesses cater to a more affluent base of consumers. Often,
resident owners unable to pay the taxes are forced to sell their
resident owners unable to pay the taxes are forced to sell their
residences and move to a cheaper community.
residences and move to a cheaper community.
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3. PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY?
A graph about the presence of big construction companies on the
major metropolitan areas of the world, compared with the state
owned areas.
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
Unknown
50% Public property
Big Housing Companies
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Africa Europe Middle East USA
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4. CAUSES AND EFFECTS
● A demographic-ecological Positive Effects Negative Effects
explanation: population, social Displacement through
organization, environment, and rent/price increases
technology. Secondary
psychological costs of
●
A sociocultural theory. displacement
Stabilization of Community
● A political-economic view, declining areas resentment and
conflict
divided into two approaches: Increased property Loss of affordable
traditional and Marxist. values housing
Unsustainable
● A community-network speculative property
price increases
approach.
Increased local fiscal Greater take of local
revenues spending through
● Social movements. lobbying/articulacy
Encouragement and Commercial/industrial
increased viability of displacement
further development
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5. SOCIAL CHANGES
● "social mix policies"
● de-concentrating poverty.
● Housing confers social status > changing social hierarchy
● people of different socioeconomic strata > strong class distinction
● new standards in consumption, particularly in the form of excess and
superfluity
● differing norms lead to conflict
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6. GENTRIFIER TYPES
●
Availability of the ‘gentry’, or those
who will be first-stage gentrifiers. The
typical gentrifiers are affluent and have
a professional-level, service industry
●
● Thus, gentrification is
Thus, gentrification is
jobs, many of which involve self- not so much the result
not so much the result
employment.
of aareturn to the inner
of return to the inner
Gentrifiers are likely searching
city but is more of aa
●
for inexpensive housing close to city but is more of
the workplace and often already
reside in the inner city.
positive action to
positive action to
remain there.
remain there.
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7. “Gentrification is just the fin above the water. Below is the rest of the shark:
a new American economy in which most of us will be poorer, a few will be far
richer, and everything will be faster, more homogenous and more controlled
or controllable” –Rebecca Solnit (2000)
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