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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.
Gentrification is more likely when there is an undersupply of housing and rising home values in a metropolitan area. [5] The gentrification process is typically the result of increasing attraction to an area by people with higher incomes spilling over from neighboring cities, towns, or neighborhoods.
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.
Gentrification – Urban socioeconomic process; Community development – Communities taking collective action to solve common problems; Academic theory: New Urbanism – Urban design movement promoting sustainable land use; Principles of Intelligent Urbanism – Theory of urban planning
West Cambridge Business Centre The Cavendish Laboratory from across the lake in winter. West Cambridge is a university site to the west of Cambridge city centre in England.As part of the West Cambridge Master Plan, several of the University of Cambridge's departments have relocated to the West Cambridge site from the centre of town due to overcrowding.
For 130 years, the historically Black section of Coconut Grove, founded by Bahamian immigrants, has been a foundation stone for Miami, a wellspring of culture and activism, and verdant, fertile ...
Cultural homogenization is an aspect of cultural globalization, [1] [2] listed as one of its main characteristics, [3] and refers to the reduction in cultural diversity [4] through the popularization and diffusion of a wide array of cultural symbols—not only physical objects but customs, ideas and values. [3]
FCC President Robert Pimentel said the campus would do “everything possible” to better serve west Fresno. Gentrification fears loom over Fresno City College’s forthcoming $86.5M West Campus ...