Bayview-Hunters Point, a neighborhood in southeastern San Francisco, has long been one of the most impoverished and polluted areas in the city. In an example of environmental racism, much of the African American community in San Francisco was segregated to Bayview-Hunters Point by racist housing policies and practices. This neighborhood was home to the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS), which was widely polluted with hazardous wastes from shipyard operation as well as radioactive contamination from the Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory established on this property. The former HPNS was made a federal Superfund site in 1989 and has been in remediation by the Navy since, with the goal of eventual transfer of the land to the city of San Francisco for redevelopment into residential and commercial areas. Throughout the history of the HPNS, government agencies have obscured both radioactive contamination and the nearby disadvantaged community in pursuit of military and economic power. As a result, the forces of redevelopment have outpaced remediation in Hunters Point. In this thesis, I argue that in continuing the environmental racism marginalizes the community in Bayview-Hunters Point and working to hide the contamination at the nearby Superfund site government agencies, primarily the Navy and city government, have fostered the conditions for green gentrification to occur, which could have ill effects on both the longstanding community and new residents.

La gentrificación es un proceso urbano que se está presentando en distintas ciudades y barrios populares del mundo. El barrio conocido actualmente como Monumental Callao viene sufriendo cambios desde el año 2015 debido al Proyecto Fugaz, el cual ha traído consigo consecuencias tanto positivas como negativas. Sin embargo, los vecinos de la localidad no tienen conocimiento del término gentrificación, no saben en qué consiste el proceso y no han sido informados previamente por algún medio de la realización del Proyecto Fugaz, lo cual es perjudicial ya que sin la información necesaria no pueden tener una visión clara de lo que está ocurriendo. El objetivo de este proyecto se enfoca en utilizar el diseño de la información para explicarles a los vecinos de la zona de una manera fácil y efectiva las causas y efectos que puede tener este proceso urbanístico. Debido a la naturaleza del tema elegido, esta investigación será de campo y cualitativa, ya que es necesario conocer los avances y el impacto que esta podría tener en el público objeto de estudio. Así mismo, las técnicas a emplear serán observación no estructurada y entrevistas semi-estructuradas, utilizando como instrumentos guías de entrevistas y grabadoras audiovisuales. Finalmente, se propondrá un prototipo de solución el cual responda al problema identificado, este será un brochure que explique fácilmente la definición, causas, etapas y consecuencias de la gentrificación. Se hará un seguimiento en los testeos para medir su evolución y los resultados principales. / Gentrification is an urban process that is being presented in different cities and popular neighborhoods of the world. The neighborhood known today as Monumental Callao has been undergoing changes since 2015 due to Proyecto Fugaz, which has received the same negative consequences. However, the residents of the locality have no knowledge of the term gentrification, we do not know what the process consists of and they have not been informed in the future. Have a clear vision of what is happening. The objective of this project focuses on using information design to explain the neighbors of the area in an easy and effective way the causes and effects that this urban process can have. This information will be based on the subject of the study. Likewise, the techniques are used as interview guides and audiovisual recorders. Finally, a prototype solution is presented in which the problem is answered, it is a booklet that easily explores the definition, causes, stages and consequences of gentrification. Monitoring will be done in the tests to measure their evolution and the main results. / Trabajo de investigación

Across the United States one would be hard pressed to find an urban center that has been unaffected by the phenomenon known as gentrification. From substantial economic growth to the displacement of long-term residents, the benefits and criticisms of the process of gentrification are wide ranging and extend over a thorough body of literature. Commonly associated with increasing levels of education and higher resident incomes, gentrification should be a boon to struggling public schools that are continually plagued by generational poverty. Unfortunately, the continued widening of the education gap and increasing racial segregation in our public schools suggest that any benefits of gentrification are not translating to equity in our public schools. By looking at the city of Portland, this paper attempts to quantitatively explore the complicated relationship among gentrifying neighborhoods, school performance on the 3rd grade standardized Math and Reading tests, and racial demographics of the students. This paper will follow the methods established by Keels et al. in their work on gentrification and school achievement in Chicago. By using 2000 Census and the 2015 ACS data and spatial analysis and mapping in GIS, gentrifying school neighborhoods in Portland will be identified and analysis of student test performance and racial demographics will be conducted to determine if any relationship exists. By exploring how these schools have changed both academically and racially we can expand educational and urban theory around the process of gentrification.

Small business owners can suffer fluctuations in profitability during the entrance of big box stores within their neighborhood that grab market share with more recognizable brands and change the retail environment. A multiple case study was completed to explore the strategies small business owners use to stay profitable during retail gentrification, looking specifically at the neighborhoods of Adams Morgan and Congress Heights in Washington, DC. Porter's five forces and the resource-based view served as the conceptual framework for the study. Seven small business owners with over 80 years of experience in their locations provided input through semistructured interviews and identified effects of gentrification on their neighborhoods and strategies they used to combat retail gentrification. The thematic approach to data analysis was used to organically code the data based upon reoccurring themes. As a result, 5 strategies were identified within the data: pricing, advertising, customer acquisition, shopkeeper mentality, and neighborhood engagement. The results of this study might provide small business owners with a toolkit of strategies to assist in staying profitable during a time of change. The implications for social change include the potential for maintaining small business profitability during gentrification, encouraging entrepreneurship, employing local residents, and retaining the authentic culture of the neighborhood.

Gênes, Valparaiso et Liverpool sont trois villes-ports dont les acteurs publics ont choisi comme stratégie de sortie de crise le réinvestissement des espaces historiques centraux, urbains et portuaires, par une politique de patrimonialisation et d'interventions urbaines. A partir d'une approche comparative sont étudiées les régulations urbaines en jeu dans ces transformations, du point de vue des configurations particulières d'acteurs et des modalités de légitimation qui les accompagnent, dont témoignent les modalités d'exercice des événements urbains. Ce réinvestissement urbanistique et patrimonial, par des interventions publiques et privés, modifie également les usages et pratiques, produisant dans les trois cas un phénomène de gentrification, entendu comme phénomène résidentiel mais aussi commercial et touristique. Toutefois ces transformations ne sont pas consensuelles et se traduisent par des conflits sur les principes même de l'aménagement et les usagers des espaces, et en creux redessinent une spatialité de la ville, via la conception du patrimoine mise en avant. En effet, les régulations urbaines mobilisent des modes de légitimation qui reposent sur des conceptions du patrimoine et des espaces urbains, étudiées comme figures de ville, reconstructions visant à donner une caractérisation des imaginaires impliqués dans les transformations urbaines. À une autre échelle s'opère une légitimation par le recours à des modèles internationaux d'aménagement, permettant de définir les multiples échelles de référence des régulations urbaines et des imaginaires mobilisés dans les transformations des espaces historiques centraux.

Les centres anciens des villes méditerranéennes traversent une période de profondes mutations liées aux redéploiements des fonctions à l'intérieur des aires métropolitaines. D'ambitieux projets de renouvellement urbain rénovent et adaptent les espaces centraux. L'ampleur et les enjeux stratégiques de ces transformations s'inscrivent dans un contexte de mise en concurrence des métropoles riveraines de la Méditerranée. Les décideurs économiques et politiques attendent et espèrent beaucoup de ces lourds investissements en terme d'efficacité et d'attractivité des territoires, afin de promouvoir leur métropole au sein de l'arc méditerranéen. Les expérimentations conduites par cette thèse de géographie concernent trois métropoles : Marseille (France), Thessalonique (Grèce), Séville (Espagne). Les centres anciens des villes méditerranéennes sont réhabilités au cours de projets de rénovation. Cette ressource patrimoniale constitue la base du processus de patrimonialisation/gentrification qui opère les principaux changements au sein des centres anciens. La dégradation puis les rénovations successives ont bouleversé les formes anciennes d'abord par la destruction puis par l'affectation de fonctions rénovées (résidentielle, sociales) ou de nouvelles fonctions (culturelles, artistiques) de niveau supérieur. Pour autant les exigences d'un renouvellement urbain durable invitent à concilier aménagement présent et développement futur. Dans ce cadre, la participation de la population aux décisions concernant l'aménagement du quartier représente un enjeu en terme de gouvernance

The aim of this thesis is to analyse migration and socio-economic differentiation in rural and urban spaces: where people move, what the characteristics of migrants are and whether experiences of rural and urban space affect attitudes toward the local living environment and place attachment. The background consists of five themes discussing different aspects of socio-economic differentiation and selective migration, for example polarization and rural gentrification. Integrated in the five themes are summaries of the four papers. The first paper, The divided city? Socio-economic changes in Stockholm metropolitan area, 1970-1994, analyses the income distribution in the Stockholm metropolitan area using residential area statistics regarding income among residents. The results show that polarization and segregation has increased during the study period. The second paper, The attraction of the rural: Characteristics of rural migrants, analyses the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of migrants to the countryside in Sweden using individual register data. The results show that urban areas attract the young, the highly educated and those with high income while rural areas attract older migrants, the self employed and families, but when comparing rural areas, periurban countrysides were more attractive to those with high income and education than more remote areas.  The third paper, Rural gentrification as a migration process: Evidence from Sweden, focuses on rural gentrification as a migration process and is based on an analysis of register data. The results show that rural gentrification in the remote countrysides of Sweden is of marginal importance. In the fourth paper, Place attachment and attitudes among young adults in rural/urban spaces, young adults’ (25-40 years of age) attitudes toward the rural/urban qualities of their local living environment and their place attachments are investigated using a survey. The results show that most people appreciate the environment they live in and they are also attached to this place. However, urban residents with a rural background seem less pleased with and are less attached to their present environment. In conclusion, migration selectivity works to reinforce both patterns of segregation and patterns of ageing. There is indication of both demographic and socio-economic polarization between and within rural and urban areas and this polarization is reinforced by selective migration flows. However, the results also indicate that rural areas are attractive living environments to many, particularly the periurban countryside and that there may be a rural migration potential among urban residents with a rural background.

This study investigates the politics of public space and social fear that work to create new scenarios for social and racial segregation in the processes of gentrification, such as privatization, fortification, and symbolism in public art in a major southern metropolitan city. The Public Art Program of Atlanta, Georgia is implementing public art projects at various sites, chosen based on being in depressed neighborhoods in the hope that it will bring new life to blighted urban areas and change the current use of space. Through an applied anthropological and multi-perspective approach, this study explores how middle and upper class residents currently regard their in-town neighborhood, surrounded by historic black universities and neighborhoods, public housing, and having a highly visible homeless population. Fortification, privatization, and residents’ response to the public art project speak profoundly to the processes of gentrification that are occurring there.

San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood and the Mission District are facing new forms of redevelopment. The deindustrialization of SoMa has posed an opportunity for a 'new model' of gentrification to create a mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhood from an area previously occupied by abandoned warehouses and vacant lots. In the Mission, awareness of the threats of gentrification and increased community participation are fighting to preserve the neighborhood and eliminate displacement. The innovative approaches to urban revitalization in these two neighborhoods demonstrate how redevelopment may occur without gentrification.

After decades of cuts to federal funding, cities were left with few resources for public services, particularly parks and open spaces. Current trends of massive gentrification in New York City are changing the housing market and other components of the private sector. In addition to altering socio-spatial dynamics in the housing and consumer markets, gentrification can alter public spaces as well. By comparing three New York City neighborhoods at different stages of gentrification, I analyzed socio-spatial dynamics, public and private funding, event programming, and ethnographically observed changes in the physical and social landscape of the park, and neighborhood, over time.