This case study of recent efforts to deconcentrate poverty within the Skid Row area of Los Angeles examines processes of "weak-center" gentrification as it applies to a "service dependent ghetto," thus filling two key gaps in prior scholarship. We document the collaboration between the government, business and development interests, and certain non-profit agencies in this process and identify t...

Gentrification has provoked considerable controversy surrounding its effects on residential displacement. Using a unique individual-level, longitudinal data set, this study examines mobility rates and residential destinations of residents in gentrifying neighborhoods during the recent housing boom and bust in Philadelphia for various strata of residents and different types of gentrification. We...

This paper presents the results of a cross-sectional study that analyzes housing characteristics and the demographic makeup of Chicago community areas. The study is part of a larger project that uses data mining techniques to evaluate and model changes in neighborhoods that may lead to gentrification or abandonment, and ultimately to the loss of affordable housing. Our initial analysis has defi...

Gentrification is an increasingly common phenomenon in many urban neighbourhoods. While cities invest more sustainable travel options for their residents, there limited literature on its connection to gentrification of the surrounding areas. Understanding whether these investments induce essential ensure positive impacts public transport are not undermined by displacement it may create. This pa...

This thesis studies how the various neighborhood organizations and the residents of a community in the City of New York, the Lower East Side, have been addressing the pressures of Abandonment in the 1970s and Gentrification in the 1980s. Case studies of neighborhood organized programs to mitigate the impact of abandonment and gentrification are studied to analyze the dynamics of the community. ...

The concept of "gentrification" is becoming an important and widespread phenomenon in most of the world's cities, both developed and developing. Consequently, many people have forcibly left their places or have lived at a higher cost. Therefore this phenomenon has become one of the most controversial issues of urban studies in recent years and can be analyzed as an influential and underlying fa...

Abstract Contemporary carnivals represent rather banal spectacles, harnessed by institutional control and stripped of their meaning as disruptive processes revelry, expressivity defiance. However, when organised at grassroots level, may retain subversive character, revealing intentions to cross the limits urban normality. By drawing on ethnographic data, this article explores carnival Metaxourg...

This article considers the different dimensions of an individual’s attempt to survive gentrification. The focus is on Beverley Robinson, a displacee from Aylesbury Estate in London, who has experienced slow violence gentrification and displacement over extended period time. We argue that her ‘survivability’ been, indeed continues be, key resistance Few academic studies have focused depth everyd...