Urban Gentrification

Gentrification for me is a tough word to understand. therefore i create this entry just to share with all of you the understanding of the term gentrification.  

Gentrification is a shift in an urban community toward wealthier residents or businesses and increasing property value, sometimes to the detriment of the poorer residents of the community. 

Urban Gentrification:

"A cycle of human activities devaluation in a centrally located district, subsequent to a population shift towards outlying area" (Guimond and Simard 2010)

what should I conclude to this definition??

gentrification is one of the terminology that show the increasing income or the way to increase the property. 

In a community undergoing gentrification, the average income increases and average family size decreases. Poorer pre-gentrification residents who are unable to pay increased rents or property taxes may be driven out. Often old industrial buildings are converted to residences and shops. New businesses, which can afford increased commercial rent, cater to a more affluent base of consumers. This further increasing the appeal to higher income migrants and decreasing the accessibility to the poor.

Gentrification occurs in urban areas where prior disinvestment in the urban infrastructure creates opportunities for profitable redevelopment, where the needs and concerns of business and policy elites are met at the expense of urban residents affected by work instability, unemployment and stigmatization. 

Urban gentrification will occur a situation where at this phase the communities are highly dependent on vehicle. there will be transport-oriented development and physical mobility management setbacks. 

Gentrification has been viewed as an unfortunate desecration of interesting and authentic urban neighbourhood, a dilution of vibrant ethnic neighbourhoods into something that is bland and uninteresting. At worst, the critics of gentrification have viewed the phenomenon as a major source of disadvantage for low income urban residents who, having established a community with all of its complex social network must now see it torn apart as they displaced. 

Some of scholar has see gentrification as a natural consequence of the process of ageing with a durable housing stock and present a model that has gentrification as a predicted outcome that can be expected to eventually take place in all cities.

Urban gentrification is not the best situation as every community eager to upgrade their lifestyle to more wealthy lifestyle and fulfill their demand on brighter life. There will be a bad impact on society as the poor will become more poorer and as a rich become more richer. 

Therefore a realistic action have to be considered in order to gain a best outcome in the community development.