Gentrification is a common and widespread controversial topic and term in urban planning, especially in big cities as New York City. It refers to shifts in an urban community lifestyle and an increasing share of wealthier residents and/or businesses and increasing property values. Some people say it is a myth but mostly term gentrification is being associated with negative side of it. Effects of gentrification are complex and contradictory, and its real impact varies. At first gentrification is being
Gentrification: sharing spaces of strain. Everyone is searching for a place to call home, and someone will ultimately go where it appeals to him or her. The Urban Dictionary had a colorful way of defining it as ‘yuppification’: lower class neighborhoods attracting white upper class yuppie tenants, increasing rent in buildings while driving out long time, lower income tenants. But a British sociologist Ruth Glass coined the actual term in the 1960s. "One by one, many of the working class quarters
Gentrification is a big part of the economic norm in the United States. Gentrification is an upgrade of communities that would allow businesses and corporations to take advantage of urban communities. Gentrification intentionally pushes the poor out of communities and brings the rich into the communities. The authors, Daniel Jose Older, Dashka Slater and William D. Jenkins have written articles that center around the topic of gentrification. However, they take different approaches in their articles
stop to it. Dating back to the third century, gentrification has always been a fight for the less fortunate individuals. Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and businesses in low-income, urban communities by upper-class individuals and companies, thus improving property values but displacing lower-income families already residing there. Not only is the displacement of these people living there an unfortunate result from gentrification but so are raised rent prices (keeping in mind