GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Geographical Segregation, Gated Community, Containerization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Cities as tourist venues: middle-class home owners in areas undergoing gentrification are often pro-gentrification. Social comfort: low-income renters are generally anti-gentrification. Exclusionary invasion of often heartless landlords: social theorists go both ways. Social equity and diversity: neil smith and the rent gap, rent gap. Maybe artists who cannot afford to buy in better served areas: stage 2: a group of risk-aware or even risk prone buyers moves in. They may be attracted by the centrality of the area. See the investment potential: the neighbourhood has the amenities one would expect of upper middle-class suburbs. A multiplication of condos and a relative dearth of rental housing: waves or periods of gentrification, jason hackworth and neil smith, wave/period 1 (1960s-early1970s) In large n. e us and w. european cities. State led: wave/period 2 (late 1970s late 80s, early 90s) The beginnings of organized resistance: referred to as urban regeneration or urban revitalization, wave/period 3 (1990s-mid 2000s)