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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"gentrified"”.
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Killin' it on Corporate Ground: The Cultural Politics of Street Performance in a Gentrified Space
… buskers represent various subcultures within a gentrified entertainment district of urban renewal that caters to the middle class. This ethnographic study aims to examine the cultural politics of busker performances in a highly corporate, gentrified space. Are buskers able to maintain their …
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Class, status and gender : a comparative study of perceptions of class and status in an Inner London Borough
… London district, which is gradually becoming "gentrified".
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From Community Blight to Community Asset: The Renovation of the Historic Whitelaw Hotel into Affordable Housing
… there is a place for low-income residents in gentrified neighborhoods by examining how the housing needs of these households are provided. Affordable housing development and maintenance are key components for preserving a place for low-income residents in gentrified communities. This paper …
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Catalyst: Architecture for Change and Social Justice
… of 8 neighborhoods on the verge of being gentrified, by incoming development. Through investigating the key issues present in this community for many years, this thesis will attempt to develop a catalytic environment, which will facilitate change within the community by providing a place …
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Accounting for the differential gentrification outcomes of the Bo-Kaap and De Waterkant, Cape Town
… to this process. De Waterkant is completely gentrified, and the Bo-Kaap not. This research study aimed to demonstrate the contrasting potential and pace for gentrification and account for the differentiating gentrification outcomes of two neighbourhoods within the same city. Based on the …
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Renewing Manchester: A supportive life skills center for Manchester's most underprivileged residents
… Va. This community is comprised of many gentrified warehouses and expensive artist lofts, skirted by poverty and the very compromised Blackwell neighborhood. Specifically this project will serve the needs of the Richmond, VA. Community. Richmond, like most American cities, houses …
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Art and Architecture: Democratising and Conceptualising Artistic Space in Cape Towns De Waterkant
… arts centre in Cape Town's De Waterkant, as a gentrified, layered urban context. Firstly, the relationship between art and architecture is considered in terms of the potential to utilise artistic principles and ideas in architectural space-making. I explore the translation of several stages and …
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Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?
… are not available to all residents within the gentrified location. Newark, NJ one of the poorest municipalities in the northeast has long been one of the faces for urban blight and is one of the most troubled cities in the state of New Jersey in terms of crime, poverty, and academic …
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Changing Cityscapes and the Process of Contemporary Gentrification: An examination of the transformation of Ringsend within the context of post-industrial growth in Dublin
… for capital accumulation contemporary gentrified sites, increasingly surrounded by walls and gates, function as symbols of the uneven development of contemporary urban renewal
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Gentrification and displacement in Greater London: an empirical and theoretical analysis
… to examine the linkages between identifiably gentrified areas and the migratory trajectories of gentrifiers and displacees. Finally the use of grounded research was undertaken to look at examples of these processes in situ through interviews with tenant's representatives and local authority …
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Tipping in: School integration in gentrifying neighborhoods
… of Gentry Parents in three different gentrifying/gentrified neighborhoods in New York City, and data from dozens of informal interviews and observations of Gentry Parents on playgrounds, school tours, and in pre-school cubby rooms. This study found that tipping in happens through the actions and …
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The gerontic turn : re-imagining the metropolitan collective of the centennial generation
… city in South End, Boston, an increasingly gentrified and high-cost neighborhood occupied by a rapidly aging population with decreasing income levels. As more seniors elect to remain in Boston while another influx of suburban seniors yearn to move into the city, the urbanism and architecture …
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Three essays on households' location decisions: analysis of the processes of gentrification and rural-urban migration
… distribution is greater in properties located in gentrified neighborhoods. The estimations correct for endogeneity of the gentrification definition, and for the spatial correlation of housing prices. The second paper develops a general equilibrium model of workers' interregional allocation. The …
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Sense Your Neighbor: Design for Bridging Social Capital in Diverse Spaces
… segments that are not yet fully redeveloped or gentrified. Design decisions are grounded in a careful assessment of site conditions, including existing social conditions, and supported by academic research in history, sociology, urban planning, and social-space design theory. Precise, …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Historical Redlining and Place-Based Reproductive Health Inequities: A Qualitative GIS Approach
… historically redlined neighborhoods are now gentrified. These findings suggest that spatial inequities in preterm birth may be related to the contemporary pattern of Black residential segregation and a lack of investment in health-promoting infrastructure and opportunities in segregated …
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Environmental (in)activism: pollution, people, and politics in two Indianapolis neighborhoods
… will likely produce a ‘sustainable’ but also gentrified community.
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Black mothers and othermothers: Lived consequences and creative responses to the policing of space in Central City, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
… and oppression by creating safe spaces within gentrified, policed boundaries. Moving Black women from the margins of analysis to the center privileges the dynamic construction of cultural memory shaped by state violence, vulnerability, and trauma; but, more importantly, it also emphasizes a …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… neighborhood. On the other hand, intensely gentrified neighborhoods observe a 5.4 percentage point higher downward mobility than nongentrified neighborhoods, renters and owners alike. Although the synergy of housing tenure and gentrification can make a difference in downward movement …