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  2. Gentrification in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Called "turbo-gentrification" by sociologist Alan Wolfe, particular areas of study of the process have been done in South End, Bay Village, and West Cambridge. In Boston's North End , the removal of the noisy Central Artery elevated highway attracted younger, more affluent new residents, in place of the traditional Italian immigrant culture.

  3. West Cambridge (neighborhood) - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. West Cambridge, also known as "Area 10", is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It is bounded by the Charles River on the south, JFK Street on the east, Concord Avenue on the north, and Fresh Pond, Aberdeen Avenue, and the Watertown line on the west.

  4. Rent-gap theory - Wikipedia

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    Neil Smith, "Gentrification and the rent gap", in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77:3 (1987), 462-465. Neil Smith, "Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People", in Journal of the American Planning Association 45:4 (1979), 538-548.

  5. East Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Since the late 1990s, East Cambridge and its neighbor Lechmere Square have undergone a gentrification process, as old factories have been converted into condominiums and office space. The neighborhood is currently the site of most of large scale developments in Cambridge, including North Point, which plans over a dozen residential towers. In ...

  6. Environmental gentrification - Wikipedia

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    Environmental gentrification is commonly understood as the process in which urban green space improvements lead to the displacement of lower-income communities, although the exact definition remains a topic of debate. [10] Green gentrification is closely related to urban planning and climate mitigation efforts.

  7. Geographical segregation - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued that gentrification is a public health issue. [17] Another segregation term, the ghetto, has been used in many different contexts over time, generally meaning any physical part of a city predominantly occupied by any particular group of people. It implies that the group may be looked down ...

  8. West founded a nonprofit, Black Owned and Operated Community Land Trust, and used it and his celebrity connects to open Sole Folks, where dozens of designers sell their wares.

  9. Gentrification - Wikipedia

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    Gentrification with a typical ranch house side by side with a bauhaus house in Dallas, Texas in 2020. Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment. [1] [2] There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification.