Usually means: Urban renewal displacing lower-income residents.
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▸ noun:  (urban studies) The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.

Similar:
degentrification, regentrification, urban renewal, urban regeneration, reurbanization, greisenisation, urban renew, reterritorialization, rurbanization, redevelopment, more...

Opposite:
urbdecay, urbblight, urbdeterioration

Types:
urbrenewal, more...

Phrases:
urban gentrification, Gentrification in the United States, Gentrification of Atlanta, Gentrification of Chicago, Gentrification of Vancouver, more...

Adjectives:
urban, rural, rapid, residential, commercial, recent, city, gay, income, scale, class

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Similar:
degentrification, regentrification, urban renewal, urban regeneration, reurbanization, greisenisation, urban renew, reterritorialization, rurbanization, redevelopment, more...

Opposite:
urbdecay, urbblight, urbdeterioration

Types:
urbrenewal, more...

Phrases:
urban gentrification, Gentrification in the United States, Gentrification of Atlanta, Gentrification of Chicago, Gentrification of Vancouver, Gentrification of San Francisco, Environmental gentrification, more...

Adjectives:
urban, rural, rapid, residential, commercial, recent, city, gay, income, scale, class

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     white,     pastel pink,     pastel blue, more...



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