GEOG 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gecekondu, Gentrification
23 Feb 2014
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Addressing the issues: participatory enumeration (cid:224) community itself collects the information required because having officials do it is very intimidating and people lie a lot to protect themselves out of fear need for community input and cooperation in order for interventions to be effective knowledge can be used in different ways(cid:224) they can get rid of people living in these places or try and make it better etc, information and research can go either way. Gentrification: displacement from the central city for affluent urban re development (cid:224)historical value buildings that have been run down get turned into different things and people are bought out or displaced : in a period of 2 years 1 million people were displaced from this idea of modernist progress downward raiding (cid:224) property prices may go up which then makes it difficult for the people who were designed to live there to still live there example: argentina (cid:224) historical caf .
