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  1. Measuring Gentrification and Displacement in Greater London

    Rowland Atkinson · 2000 · Urban Studies · 338 citations

    The use of aggregate data to understand the linkages between gentrification and displacement has been considered problematic because of a lack of refinement or closeness to the nature of these processes as well as lacking the ability to 'track' displacees. This paper presents the results of pioneering work designed to overcome these problems by combining cross-sectional census data with spatially re-aggregated longitudinal census data (the Longitudinal Study). Using established approaches to measure gentrification, via proxy measures, and devising others for its potential displacees, the work demonstrates a displacement effect clustered around gentrified wards. Attempts are made to quantify

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  2. Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?

    Yushu Zhu, Changdong Ye · 2022 · Urban Geography · 50 citations

    ABSTRACT This study contributes to the debate on the psychological dimensions of displacement in urban renewal (UR) literature by examining how different modes of UR may disrupt or reconstruct the sense of home for affected residents in urban China. The forms of UR in China have evolved from the intensive pro-growth urban redevelopment that was prevalent in the 1990s and early 2000s to the emerging trend of micro-renewal, which features neighborhood renovation without physical displacement or the remaking of social classes. We distinguish between wholesale redevelopment and micro-renewal, then examine the impacts of these different modes of UR on post-renewal neighborhood attachment (NA). We

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  4. Touristification, commercial gentrification, and experiences of displacement in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Busan, South Korea

    Minji Kim, R. Holifield · 2022 · Journal of Urban Affairs · 30 citations

    ABSTRACT One of the most prominent topics in scholarship on touristification and gentrification is displacement, including not only direct physical displacement, but also the emotional and social impacts associated with indirect displacement. Although research on touristification and gentrification has begun to examine the experiences and perceptions of residents undergoing displacement in low-income urban neighborhoods, it has paid less attention to the spatial characteristics of indirect displacement and the distinctive characteristics of displacement associated specifically with tourism. In Gamcheon Culture Village (GCV) in Busan, South Korea, touristification and commercial gentrificatio

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  5. Before displacement: studentification, campus-led gentrification and rental market transformation in a multiethnic neighborhood (Parc-Extension, Montréal)

    Violaine Jolivet, Chloé Reiser, Yan Baumann, et al. · 2022 · Urban Geography · 18 citations

    ABSTRACT This article explores a case of campus-led neighborhood change that weaves together an analysis of gentrification, studentification and displacement. Contributing to the understanding of displacement pressure, this empirical study employs a temporal perspective and an innovative mixed method that captures the shifting state of the rental market and the perceptions of neighborhood change as understood by immigrant and low-income residents of Parc-Extension. We analyze how studentification is promoted in a campus-led gentrification case study, showing how both gentrification and studentification participate in the rise of evictions and displacement pressures for long term residents. B

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  6. The embodiment of exclusionary displacement pressure: Intersections of housing insecurity and mental health in a Hispanic/Latinx immigrant neighborhood.

    Marisa Westbrook · 2024 · Social science & medicine · 12 citations

    Gentrification, growing income inequality, urban development, and the affordable housing crisis necessitate understanding the impact of the concern of displacement on health - prior to or even in the absence of a displacement event. In this paper, I use the term "exclusionary displacement pressure" to unify the literature on exclusionary displacement and displacement pressure, highlighting the disproportionate and inequitable impacts of displacement pressure among communities of color. Through following 35 residents over 2.5-years (2019-2022) in one predominantly low-income Hispanic/Latinx immigrant neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, I examine how exclusionary displacement pressure shapes the

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  7. What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?

    B. van Leeuwen · 2024 · Progress in Human Geography · 11 citations

    Recently a number of theorists argue that physical displacement as a result of gentrification ought to be morally rejected on the basis of the principle of personal autonomy: displacement violates the option to exercise “place-based” or “located life-plans.” What is adversely violated is the neighborhood as a spatial background condition for the ability to realize embedded pursuits. I argue that this attempt to morally value social attachments to a particular place as means (or resources) to realize plans, is unconvincing and subject to moral risk because it instrumentalizes social attachments instead of recognizing their intrinsic significance for those concerned. The paper provides an alte

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  8. The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China

    Paola Pellegrini, Jinliu Chen · 2025 · Urban Studies · 6 citations

    Urban densification and its implications remain underexplored in China, especially regarding the regeneration of urban decaying areas. This study contributes to the discourse by investigating densification as a strategic urban regeneration tool in China’s state–market development, focusing on one of the most common forms of residential areas in post-reform urbanization, the resettlement neighborhood. Integrating fieldwork, archival research, interviews, and media analysis, the study examines a pioneering densification in the transition of state-entrepreneurialism to a free market. Unlike Western cases, prompted by private interests, the local government leveraged densification to reconcile s

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  9. Neighborhood gentrification, displacement, and severe maternal morbidity in California

    Xing Gao, Timothy A. Thomas, R. Morello-Frosch, et al. · 2023 · Social science & medicine (1982) · 5 citations

    Gentrification, a racialized and profit-driven process in which historically disinvested neighborhoods experience an influx of development that contributes to the improvement of physical amenities, increasing housing costs, and the dispossession and displacement of existing communities, may influence the risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM). Leveraging a racially diverse population-based sample of all live hospital births in California between 2006 and 2017, we examined associations between neighborhood-level gentrification and SMM. SMM was defined as having one of 21 procedures and diagnoses, as described in the SMM index developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We compar

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  12. Changing Scope of Gentrification in Seoul? Neighborhood Transformation and Displacement in Sangwangsimni and Changsin‐Sungin Industrial Clusters

    Blaž Križnik, Kon Kim · 2024 · The Developing Economies · 1 citations

    Gentrification and displacement used to be an integral part of neighborhood transformation in Seoul, contributing to its economic and urban growth. While direct displacement has recently declined, new forms of displacement are emerging. This study employs a qualitative, case‐oriented research approach to understand gentrification in Seoul by comparing neighborhood transformation and displacement in Sangwangsimni and Changsin‐Sungin industrial clusters. In Sangwangsimni, the property‐led urban redevelopment contributed to the direct displacement of residents. In contrast, Changsin‐Sungin residents were able to remain in place because of the state‐led urban regeneration. However, the latter re

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  13. Gentrification influences mosquito community composition at neighborhood and county levels in Miami-Dade County, Florida

    Nicole A. Scavo, Chalmers Vasquez, L. Multini, et al. · 2025 · PLOS One · 1 citations

    Gentrification is occurring across urban areas in the United States and poses threats to marginalized and vulnerable communities through displacement, disruption of social networks, and worsening health outcomes. Gentrification is both a social and environmental process, affecting socioecological factors responsible for driving mosquito abundance and community composition. Our study aims to investigate how gentrification in Miami-Dade County, Florida, affects the alpha and beta diversity of mosquito communities. We relied on data from the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control Division from 2020 to 2024, paired with data from the American Community Survey, to analyze changes in mosquito communit

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  14. Displacement as a social problem and its relationship to gentrification

    Javier González-Argote, E. Maldonado · 2024 · Gentrification · 1 citations

    The article examines the impact of gentrification on the social fabric and urban structure of cities between 2018 and 2023. This study focuses on how neighborhood renovation can lead to the displacement of vulnerable communities, addressing a critical issue in contemporary urban planning. Through a methodological approach that combines bibliometric analysis and integrative synthesis, the dynamics of change in urban neighborhoods and their consequences for long-term residents are investigated. The article highlights the need to thoroughly understand the economic, social, and cultural dimensions of gentrification to mitigate its adverse effects and promote more inclusive development practices.

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  15. A sandwich effect: Gentrification and Black residential displacement in the university-adjacent West Philadelphia Promise Zone

    Ayana Allen-Handy, Alysha Meloche, Rasheda Likely, et al. · 2024 · Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City · 1 citations

    ABSTRACT This study examines the landscape of gentrification and Black residential displacement within the West Philadelphia Promise Zone (WPPZ). Our intergenerational community-driven participatory action research team conducted a comparative longitudinal spatial analysis between Census data from 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2017 investigating variables of both gentrification and displacement including changes in population, racial demographics, per capita income, and housing costs and value. Our findings demonstrate that targeted block groups within the WPPZ are exhibiting indicators of displacement; however, they are not progressing at the same rate. We found that Black residents are impacted

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  17. Neighborhood Change and Gentrification Near Three Urban Trails

    Greg Lindsey, Yunlei Qi, Torsha Bhattacharya, et al. · 2021 · Findings · 1 citations

    This paper describes changes in indicators of gentrification in neighborhoods adjacent to recently opened multiuse trails in three US cities. We hypothesize changes are greater in abutting Census Block Groups (CBGs) than in CBGs further from the trails and use a case-control, pre-post design to report changes in gentrification status and related indicators three years after opening. We provide evidence of gentrification near each trail, but in two cases the majority of gentrifiable CBGs in treatment groups remained gentrifiable after three years. Rates and degree of gentrification associated with new trails differ depending on context.

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  19. Participatory gentrification: how participatory design mechanisms legitimize neighborhood change in Chinese urban regeneration

    Rui-Qi Peng · 2026 · Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

    Participatory Design is widely promoted as a democratic tool for empowering communities in urban regeneration. However, growing evidence suggests that participatory processes may reproduce existing hierarchies and contribute to exclusionary neighborhood change. This study advances the concept of participatory gentrification to explain how Participatory Design becomes implicated in gentrification not through direct displacement, but through procedural and epistemic filtering embedded in participatory practices. Drawing on 71 interviews across four community cases in Shanghai and Chengdu, supplemented by consumption landscape indicators, the analysis identifies nine filtering mechanisms operat

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  20. Abstract 4363589: Neighborhood-Level Gentrification and Rates of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Neil Zhang, Katherine L. Chen, Frederick J. Zimmerman, et al. · 2025 · Circulation

    Background: Despite advances in preventive cardiology, there remain differences in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) rates among certain populations and across neighborhoods. While gentrification is an important neighborhood-level factor that may contribute to disparities, no studies have examined the relationship between gentrification and STEMI. We sought to analyze the change in STEMI rates over time for gentrifying neighborhoods compared to non-gentrifying, stably low-SES neighborhoods. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all emergency medical service STEMI activations occurring within low-SES census tracts (i.e. tracts susceptible to gentrification) in Lo

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  22. Urban Removal: The Long-Term Impacts of the Displacement of Denver’s Auraria Neighborhood

    Sophia Krout, Reginald A. Byron · 2026 · DU Undergraduate Research Journal

    In the early 1970s, the Auraria Center for Higher Education was developed, displacing a well-established Denver Latino neighborhood, which encompassed a 38-block district at the time, including 155 families, 49 single individuals, and 237 businesses, and clearing the way for the establishment of the Metropolitan State University of Denver, the University of Colorado Denver, and Denver Community College. The implementation of remedial measures for the displacement has fallen short of meeting the needs of displaced residents. The residents were promised affordable education through a program named the Displaced Aurarian Scholarship, which has similarly stated intentions of improving the educat

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  24. Abstract B006: Changes in prostate cancer stage-specific incidence rates 2008-2021 by neighborhood gentrification status in Philadelphia metropolitan area

    Daniel Wiese, Ann Klassen, Scott W. Keith, et al. · 2025 · Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

    Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black men and residents of urban lower-income neighborhoods. However, neighborhoods and their demographic structure can change over time in response to processes like gentrification—a socio-demographic transformation process that typically occurs alongside profit-driven housing redevelopment in historically disinvested communities, frequently leading to population displacement. Although gentrification may positively affect neighborhoods by improving the built environment, its effect on cancer-related health outcomes remains largely unknown. In the present study, we eval

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