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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"Gentrification"”.
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Gentrification without displacement
Gentrification is the movement of a moneyed class or the gentry into disinvested urban neighborhoods. This action facilitates displacement of existing residents in the formerly disinvested neighborhoods. This displacement is another step of a long history of marginalization of low-income minority …
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Commercial gentrification : trends and solutions
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.
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Gentrification and Income Segregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas
<p>Gentrification and income segregation are both poorly understood phenomena in terms of their causes and effects as is the relationship between the two topics. Even less is known in the context of small cities and over the time period spanning the last few decades. In this study public data from …
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Mega Sport and the Gentrification of Public Space
… focus on the impact that the Super Bowl has on gentrification through a critical lens, examining how neoliberalism, and capital accumulation shapes contemporary statecraft. For this study it is important to establish the context and conditions under which issues of urban regeneration, …
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Investigating Gentrification and the Role of Green Infrastructure
… tool for cities through mitigation of gentrification. Green building rating systems, like LEED, were designed with environmental sustainability in mind. Sustainability holistically however is about preserving the environment, economics, and equity. A scoping literature review confirmed …
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Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?
<p>Gentrification is the process of investment into disinvested neighborhoods. The development of gentrification brings a reduction in crime, new job opportunities, and better government services, but these new neighborhood amenities are not available to all residents within the gentrified …
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Geocultura delle identità urbane e gentrification. Il caso Belleville
Questa ricerca si occupa del fenomeno della gentrification, ossia della rioccupazione e della rivitalizzazione dei centri urbani a partire dagli anni Sessanta, da parte della middle class a spese della working class. La tesi illustra le varie fasi storiche della gentrification: l'origine …
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The Battle of Gentrification vs. Centrification: The role of nonprofits
… the value proposition for residents who face gentrification. Using a case study in Tacoma, Washington, this paper examines how nonprofit organizations, local government, and private developers attempt to serve what are often two conflicting forces — economic development and community …
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Decoding Gentrification. An operative study through the microcosms of Istanbul
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Promises and costs of gentrification : the case of Dikmen Valley
This thesis explores the class impact of gentrification, contributing to a deeper insight into multiple experiences of gentrification. Centring on an ethnographic study of gentrification in Dikmen Valley in Ankara, it is concerned with the relations among the multiple actors involved in the …
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Analysis of Gentrification and Green Spaces in East Austin, Texas
<p>Gentrification, the urban process that results from uneven development within cities, can cause unjust displacement of traditional, low-income residents in residential neighborhoods, and inequitable access to community services and benefits. Because of the negative social impacts that …
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The role of environmental justice in the fight against gentrification
… are involved in campaigns to address gentrification within their communities. This thesis explores the ways in which these organizations connect the issue of gentrification to environmental issues and how they are using community organizing to confront it. This research is based on …
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Gentrification and displacement in Greater London: an empirical and theoretical analysis
… of the relationship between the processes of gentrification and displacement in the context of the Greater London area. Scant work has been previously undertaken in this country on these processes compared to be the wealth of work conducted already on gentrification. Displacement has barely …
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The Whiteness Project of Gentrification: The Battle over Los Angeles' Eastside
… to town. The newest target of Los Angeles' gentrification for the past couple of years has been the greater Eastside. In this project I present my critical intervention of <em>gentrification as a whiteness project</em>. This critical intervention argues that gentrification should be …
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Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization
… may have shaped policing during this time: gentrification, fiscal crisis, and the suburbanization of poverty and of people of color. I ask four interrelated research questions: How widely did “broken windows” policing, with its emphasis on misdemeanor arrests, diffuse? Do police make more …
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
… planning process and its influence on suburban gentrification. Previous literature has critiqued the exclusionary nature of consensus-building and collaboration in urban planning processes, but there is little connection in the literature between those processes and gentrification. This research …
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The Development and Gentrification of Musical Commerce in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1716-1775
… 1716 to 1775. It especially focuses on the gentrification of this industry and the ways in which elite Virginians made use of music to establish themselves as inheritors of British culture and musical entertainment. A diversity of musical businesses appeared in Williamsburg during the …
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"Good jobs, not gentrification" : the fight for community centered development in Roxbury
… and residential construction. Concerns about gentrification and displacement of low and moderate income residents inspired a wave of direct action organizing demanding tangible local employment benefits from new development. The campaign culminated in the passage of a "Good Jobs Policy", to be …
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