As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s actually pretty rare. For example, a study by the nonprofit National ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s ...

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In East Asia, a silent shift is taking place: gentrification. Urban neighbourhoods are undergoing huge transformations as once-affordable areas become hotspots for upscale living. This process, which ...

Conflicts among residents over neighborhood reputation are an important factor in whether a neighborhood becomes gentrified or not. Photo by David McBee/Pexels ...

Bordering Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis is the poorest and youngest district in metropolitan France, and distills many of the problems and paradoxes that tend to characterise the “banlieues.” In the town ...

Recent artists’ exhibitions such as “Making Up Carolyn” at Worm-Hole Laboratory, “The Last Show” at The House, and a flurry of articles in the media have put the issue of gentrification in the ...

Mum-of-two Jordan Rivera says it is "going to be difficult" to continue raising her family in Hackney.

As far as South Korea is concerned, it was the new-build gentrification that played a dominant role for a long time in the capitalist production of space. This has to do with the fact that the country ...

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor ...