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Gentrification: Particularities and Intricacies of the Process in the Case Study of Harlem, New York City
Grünová, Gabriela ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; French, William Giles (referee)
The quantitative and qualitative analysis of gentrification in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City revealed the complexity of the whole process. The process of gentrification in this case study is not a coherent transformation of a neighborhood. Similarly, gentrifiers of different races and classes arriving in the area cannot be denoted by one term of middle-class or affluent people because of the variety of their backgrounds and origins. The process of gentrification in Harlem has so far occurred in three successive waves. The first wave can be characterized by small numbers of urban pioneers arriving in Harlem and making the neighborhood more attractive for further newcomers. This wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s was described in the study of Schaffer and Smith. However, given the insignificant amounts of urban pioneers acting as gentrifiers in the area, they seriously doubted the possibility of gentrification reaching its momentum in Harlem. Yet, after two decades, more precisely in the late 1990s, the second wave of gentrification took place in Harlem. The quantitative analysis of the census data concerning housing and racial composition of the neighborhood proved why the tentative conclusions of this particular study do not apply. One of the predictions of Schaffer and Smith insisted on...
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