GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Urban Decay, Gentrification, Starbucks
3 Mar 2017
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Urban landscapes: component parts of urban landscape, downtown i. e. the central business district (cbd, residential areas (housing) i. e. neighbourhoods, industrial areas i. e. manufacturing, etc, commercial areas i. e. offices, stores, restaurants, etc. 1 observed neighbourhood change over time via fire insurance. Neighbourhoods: filtering & gentrification: as houses are passed from one individual/family to the next, 2 types of gradual social change are common: i) economic and ii) cultural, economic change: Filtering: a transition that occurs as housing units are passed from members of one income group to another. Downward-filtering leads towards urban decay and abandonment. Upward-filtering or gentrification: a process of inner-city neighbourhood social change resulting from the in-movement of higher-income groups. Taxes go up, affects lower-income people, starbucks expensive coffee vs. cheaper original place, lower-income residents pushed out of own neighbourhood. Residential mobility results in creation of neighbourhoods that are distinguished on basis of income, class, ethnicity, religion, etc.
