Research Portfolio: The retrospective data gathered for this paper will be the foundation for the argument. The book and papers previously mentioned will serve a significant role in helping to gather information because they themselves are detailed and all contain a preponderance of further readings on the subject. The kind of information which I focused on was facts about the intentions of the LDDC and then reports on what they ended up producing. Also, I used reports of other gentrified areas of London so I can get a better understanding of how those areas ended up. I can then use data collected from other sources to compare those areas to the Docklands itself. The discussion of other areas will be brief as to not detract from the focus of this paper, but it is important to have a background of knowledge in order to speak on the differences in gentrification. Each of the paragraphs below serve as a different point using sourced data to support it, they are not currently in the order which they will be cited in the final draft for the structure of the argument is not finalized.
1. Many of what are now London’s prime gentrified areas (Notting Hill Gate; Islington; Wandsworth) were, its suburbs in the …show more content…
The massive differences in socio-economic classes between Docklands and Non-Docklands shows how different the gentrification was. “Respondents in the non-Docklands areas were mostly born in the 20 years following the end of the second world war, whereas respondents in Docklands tended to divide into a somewhat older and a somewhat younger group although the mean age was similar; they were either frantically busy young people making their way (usually) in the City (i.e. in financial services) and highly committed to work and consumerism or, on the other hand, older people, often empty nesters, divorcees or second homeowners, who had shed their family responsibilities and wanted somewhere with fewer social and property maintenance obligations” (Butler,
1. Many of what are now London’s prime gentrified areas (Notting Hill Gate; Islington; Wandsworth) were, its suburbs in the …show more content…
The massive differences in socio-economic classes between Docklands and Non-Docklands shows how different the gentrification was. “Respondents in the non-Docklands areas were mostly born in the 20 years following the end of the second world war, whereas respondents in Docklands tended to divide into a somewhat older and a somewhat younger group although the mean age was similar; they were either frantically busy young people making their way (usually) in the City (i.e. in financial services) and highly committed to work and consumerism or, on the other hand, older people, often empty nesters, divorcees or second homeowners, who had shed their family responsibilities and wanted somewhere with fewer social and property maintenance obligations” (Butler,