Gentrification Flashcards
1
Q
Millin 2012
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1 in 4 people are obese in Brooklyn
5 athletes were taken for 2012
Tale of 2 boroughs
2
Q
Zukin 1998
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- artists have been ‘accused’ of being the shock troops of gentrification
3
Q
Less 2003
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Super gentrification
4
Q
BROOKLYN
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1980’S Williamsburg became trendy
Jan 2017 social housing east off Brooklyn
5
Q
Hymowitz 2017
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Gentrification has winners and losers but urban decline makes losers out of everyone
6
Q
Slater 2011
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- gentrification occurs in urban areas where prior disinvestment in urban infrastructure has occurred.
- creating opportunities for profitable redevelopment
7
Q
Glass 1964
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Gentrification coined Looking at London and the struggles of the the working class against increasing house prices
8
Q
Smith 1987
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Rent gap theory
Largest gap between what the land is worth andin what it could be worth.
East London is declining = bigger rent gap = redevelopment
9
Q
Butler 1997/2007
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Class is the main factor of gentrification
High rental costs are a negative of the process.
10
Q
Proud 2014
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Shorditchification
1996 it became trendy
