Gentrification In Urban Cities Essay

The Impact of Gentrification in Major Urban Cities In Fortress Los Angeles Mike Davis discusses how corporations redevelopment of major urban cities has led to gentrification. Davis refers to the term gentrification as, "Extraordinary precautions … taken to ensure the physical separation of the different classes" (509). Gentrification zones through the city have widened the gap between the the socioeconomic classes that exist in society, resulting in a displacement of a large number of individuals/groups. Davis uses the term "urban renaissance" to describe the change in the socio-spatial perspective of urban cities, but specifically focuses on the city of Los Angeles in this piece. Socio-spatial perspective addresses the relationship between the infrastructure built and how society interacts with it. Davis persuades his audience through his diction and word choice of the negative effects of gentrification and how they have contributed to a dysfunctional society. He accomplishes this through establishing his credibility and using his audience's' emotions to effectively communicate and deliver his message, but he fails to provide reasoning for his claim . As a professor, he uses his status and …show more content…
He uses the words social imprisonment to describe the consequences that have resulted from the increase of infrastructure and how it has have affected the city’s original inhabitants. The words social imprisonment, are similar to the word brutalization in how they impact the audience's response. If he changes his word choice and diction, that will change the effect it has on his audience. If the effect changes, then appeal changes as well. His word choice delivers his emotions and feelings across to his