Gentrification

Rina Swentzell and Rory Caroll were witnesses to gentrification, yet at different emotions. Swentzell reflects on the sadness of the gentrification of her Native American tribal land, whereas, Rory, a journalist, who’s reporting the anger of the Boyle Heights residents fighting the current neighborhood gentrification. The tone of Swentzell’s article is one of reflection and grieving because she realizes the disappointment rooted in the gentrification. She realizes that Bureau of Indian Affairs…

was leaded by a statics social disparities as a result of the caste systems. Differently, the urbanization process has impact on the society by a sociodemographic modification of the population district and this the definition attributed to the gentrification, a dynamic process of social inequality modification in the urban structure of the…

of Park Slopes historic brownstones were cleaned up along with the rest of the neighborhood but before this Park Slope was a rough working-class neighborhood. Many neighborhoods, including Park Slope, are going through the process of gentrification. While gentrification can have negative and positive affects on a neighborhood, it’s important to ask who are the new residents moving into these neighborhoods, but more importantly how the people who remain in the neighborhood are affect by the…

In the article, “Gentrification Through the Eyes of Yelp Reviewers” by Richard Florida, Florida attempts to summarize and bring light to a recent sociological study of the gentrification of two Brooklyn neighborhoods with different demographics. This study focuses on the public perception of a popular restaurant in Greenpoint, a primarily Polish neighborhood, and an equally popular restaurant in Bed-Stuy, a primarily African-American neighborhood. According to Florida, the sociologists who…

middle-class, racially integrated, cosmopolitan community” (93). She examines the factors that pushed for gentrification, the influence it had on the neighborhood’s metamorphosis, and the effects of the displacement of traditional residents and businesses through new commercial activity. Through her detailed analysis of the past and present circumstances surrounding Harlem, it is apparent gentrification has widespread consequences from both ends of the spectrum, especially in regards to…

Gentrification occurs when wealthier people move into an area increasing rent and property value. When a hazardous site such as a factory or dump is built, residents in a higher socioeconomic class move out while the lower socioeconomic classes move in. This could lead to gentrification if higher-class residences move back in when the pollution is cleaned up. This means that the benefits are…

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…

Connie Tang Weekly Reflection 4 In this essay I argue how the effects of Hurricane Katrina resulted in a perfect representation of structural racism as shown through the lack of structural and economic improvement as well as through the colossal gentrification issue that occurred in the aftermath. Before I explain how structural racism was perpetrated since Hurricane Katrina, I will first define the term structural racism. As described by President Obama, the federal government’s response to…

class. Some will leave this cycle having benefitted from it, able to buy the ideal single family home. Others, the renters, will have been pushed to another soon to be or already blighted area. Progress in city growth has come to be accepted as gentrification. Concentrated “ghettos” or blighted areas were created by systematic means of segregation. Starting with deed restrictions on the individual level and restrictive covenants on the level of the community. Local governments…

As cities have become more knowledge based and densely packed, urban renewal movements have commenced since the early 20th century. Kesha Moore writes, “Gentrification is commonly used to describe a class-based process of neighborhood transition in which affluent residents move into and upgrade lower-income neighborhoods, primarily through improvements in a neighborhood’s housing stock.” The main ‘gentrifiers’…