Gentrification
The gentrification (of gentry , English minor nobility) is the process by which the sociological and social profile of a district changes with the profit of a higher social layer. It is called also gentrification.
The gentrification results in the restoration of the buildings and the increase in real estate values, it thus exerts a pressure on the poor so that they move towards sectors less in request. It leads consequently to a form of segregation analyzed in particular by Eric Maurin in the French Ghetto . The stake of the Academic success of the children became central for a social layer in its desire of reproduction, and it is the quality of the school which constitutes the Tropisme around whose the company is organized.
The gentrification starts when relatively easy people discover a district offering a quality-price ratio interesting and decide to migrate there. Such districts are necessarily well located compared to the Center-ville, have certain natural attractions or of the generating poles of employment.
One cannot deny that the phenomenon generates social problems, especially if it occurs quickly, but it should be recognized that the development process and of urban development always proceeded by the expulsion of the weakest economically worms of more offset or more degraded zones. It is up to the public authorities to mitigate the impact of the process. They can do it different façons : to subsidize social housing, to facilitate the formation of co-operative of dwelling, to impose a Control of the rents.
External bonds
- article of the newspaper " alternatives économiques"
- Study of a phenomenon of gentrification in Quebec
- theory of the gentrification of Chris Hamnett
- the city at three speeds: relegation, periurbanisation, gentrification , by Jacques Donzelot in the review Spirit
| Random links: | Georges Felix de Wimpffen | Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal | Prosciurillus | Passementerie | Gantry of detection | June 1999 | Élection_générale_de_la_Nouvelle_Zélande,_1999 |