Gentrification

Austin Briffa The Problem of Gentrification: A Policy Brief It is with great concern and urgency that I address the issue of gentrification to you and your cabinet. According to the New York Department of City Planning, your city is projected to grow from its current 8.55 million person-population to 9.03 million in 2040, an increase of about 8.9%. All five boroughs are experiencing varying levels of growth, and although these percentages are lower than in the past, the population will still…

increase in poverty, crime rates, pollution and lackluster public school systems, politicians and economist have pushed for urban gentrification. Seen as a means to reinvigorate cities, urban gentrification benefits the affluent citizens flocking towards city neighborhoods from the suburbs, rather than the poor citizens already living there. Therefore, urban gentrification is legitimatized through social conflict theory as the wealthy are taking possession of impoverished city neighborhoods…

historical place of disinvestment, often times occupied by people of color, and lower socioeconomic classes, becomes an opportunity. This phenomenon has led to gentrification of neighborhoods such as Oak Park as individuals reconsider a place they can call home. Development, a phenomenon associated yet isolated from the concept of gentrification does not necessarily carry negative connotations. But, it is crucial to evaluate the new developmental benefits to primary stakeholders—the original…

Another way low income families are hurt by failures of city planning and protection is through today’s gentrification. Residential segregation have only changed forms as the decades went on. Gentrification is when business owners renovate and improve buildings and districts to appeal to a higher-class demographic. The common effect is that property taxes skyrocket, low-income families get displaced by rising prices, and that culture gets diluted () . Positive effects like more school funding…

he term Gentrification is coined together by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families into urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. In the past decades, gentrification have been defined and refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older…

no means of production, whose only value they had was the ability to sell their labour, had now been replaced with middle to upper class professionals and families. The subsequent gentrification of these inner suburbs has changed the landscape of Melbourne entirely; the working…

Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities Ever wonder what will happen if people band together to try to fix whole communities? What would happen if these cities now seen as blackened areas disappeared completely? What would happen to the infrastructure, and most importantly what would happen to those already living there? These very important and current issues are answered in "Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities" written by Daniel…

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…

penalized, however if there is a community vote on the topic they should abide to the new concept or laws. I sense many people fear change, not just in community but in life. Having this fear is an obstacle in obtaining future goals. . Additionally gentrification has done this to the inner-city and many urban areas already.many minorities in other groups have been forced out of their communities and homes because big businesses what to develop and build in their area. Many of these individual…

The third article is about gentrification, which ties in heavily with the idea of spacial control, how the government uses the space it controls to dominate certain groups of people and also the community aspect of space and what it means to share the space. Although the article touches upon some statistics of who is affected and it points towards people of color, there is very little agreement or reference to the fact that gentrification affects people of color the most and is usually…