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gentrification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | restoration |
| Derivation | gentrify |
Examples of gentrification
gentrification
Despite attempts at gentrification, it's the most atmospheric slice of the city.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Despite some of the rhetoric, gentrification is not the real problem in Detroit.
From the freep.com
Maria Galarce Crain sees displacement as the biggest downside of gentrification.
From the washingtonpost.com
Young black professionals are spurring development and gentrification of Ward 8.
From the washingtonpost.com
In order to bring about transformation it is necessary to accept gentrification.
From the guardian.co.uk
The neighborhood, a center for low-income artists, is undergoing gentrification.
From the time.com
Gentrification has been in the works for years, but Sept. 11 was a turning point.
From the latimes.com
Instead, the facility is seen as contributing to the process of gentrification.
From the newsweek.com
It is part of a campaign to boycott neighborhood shops to protest gentrification.
From the nytimes.com
- The restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents)
- (gentrify) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town"
- Gentrification and urban gentrification denote the socio-cultural changes in an area resulting from wealthier people buying housing property in a less prosperous community. ...
- 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
- Process whereby private or government-sponsored development of certain aging neighborhoods results in the displacement of low- or moderate-income families by the more affluent and leads to an increase in property values.
- A process of change in the social and economic condition of urban neighborhoods where poorer original residents are replaced by newcomers from middle class and professional groups.
- The process in which low-cost, run down neighborhoods undergo physical renovation resulting in an increase in property values and an influx of wealthier residents.
- The renovation of the housing fabric in an old, usually inner-city area, when more affluent groups displace lower income groups en masse over a relatively short period of time. ...
- Refers to the socio-cultural displacement that results when wealthier people acquire property in low income and working class communities.
