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Gentrification

In the article “What is Gentrification, Really?” the author goes in a more depth study on the word then most would. He first gives the definition we are all familiar with. He then goes to tell us the origins of the word and it how it was modified as time passed.  The author states “The term agentlea here implies what we might expect: freedom from conflict and hardship, from the rigors of the aworking lifea”. This quote is to clarify what he sees what the word gentrification means; that gentrification is a change to an ease, elegance and novelty, a gentle existence.

 

The article has a lot of format issues.

 

“What is Gentrification, Really?” UWIRE Text, 9 Apr. 2014, p. 1. General OneFile, lehman.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=lehman_main&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA364334465&asid=1f7560231091d26b1304922c35bc31ed. Accessed 13 Mar. 2017.

1 reply on “Gentrification”

Thanks for this– it’s cool to think of this definition as a historical intro to the particular problem you’ll focus on in your lit review. He says it is an ease– but are there folks who experience gentrification as anything but “easy?” I’d be curious to hear what part of gentrification you want to delve deeper into.
DW

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