A Gentrification Research Agenda for the 1990S

Spain, Daphne

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1992.tb00281.x

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“…Nevertheless, there are still "questions about the full extent and significance of gentrification" (Hutchison 1992, p. 6) which need to be investigated. Not only Hutchison (1992), but also Spain (1992) see the opportunity to find answers in using the now available 1990 census data for further research.…”

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“…While Warde (1991) calls for a synthesis of the diverse theoretical approaches to gentrification, Spain (1992) argues that "[i]ntellectual consensus is not as important as the need to broaden, rather than narrow, our conceptualizations of the phenomenon" (p. 132).…”

Section: Chapterll Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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“…In order to assess the level of gentrification in the Portland Northwest neighborhood in the most recent decade, I particularly took four of Spain's (1992) hypotheses and tested them by analyzing the 1990 census data in comparison with the census data of 1980. As presented in chapter II, Spain expected for the more recent time period that gentrification activity will be reduced as the baby boom generation enters a more familistic life-cycle stage, that women are rather displacees than gentrifiers, that residents of gentrified areas have a shorter journey to work, and that the gentrified area becomes racially more heterogeneous.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Spain (1992), demographic variables have an important function when assessing the level of gentrification in a neighborhood. She emphasized the role of young, childless households as the major source of demand for gentrified housing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The literature attributes certain prevalent household compositions to a gentrifying neighborhood, i.e, particularly persons living alone and childless couples (Le Gates and Hartman 1981;Gale 1984;Kerstein 1990;Spain 1992 However, a closer look at different family types revealed a different picture (table VI). When I compared married-couple, female-headed, and male-headed families with and without children at home, I found significant shifts in the household composition in, the two areas.…”

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An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon

Oesterle¹

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An abstract of the thesis of Sabrina Oesterle for the Master of Arts in Sociology presented August 9, 1994.Title: An empirical assessment of the gentrification process in Northwest Portland, Oregon.Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, many American cities experienced the process of gentrification, and there are many studies based on data from this time period. A first purpose of this study was to follow up on the development of gentrification in the 1980s. Northwest Portland, Oregon, is culturally clearly defined as a gentrifying neighborhood and was, therefore, chosen as to empirically assess this process by comparing the 1980 with the 1990 census data.There is some theoretical confusion about the concept of gentrification. There is, however, general consensus on two aspects. The first is a physical renovation of old and run-down inner-city neighborhoods, and the second is a change in the demographic composition of the revitalizing neighborhood from low and middle to upper-middle and high status residents. One aspect of gentrification is largely ignored by empirical studies, but often assumed to flow from physical renovation and compositional change, i.e, an alteration in the fabric of social life in the 2 gentrified area, in patterns of interaction and symbolic attachment. It was a second purpose of this study to explore this issue on the basis of longitudinal survey data collected in the Northwest neighborhood in 1978 and 1993.The census analysis showed that the demographic change in Northwest Portland was surprisingly consistent with Gale's original stage model of gentrification from 1980, but not with predictions for more recent times. The analysis of the survey data showed a lack of overall change in the interactional and symbolic fabric of community life. T-tests for distinct life-cycle stages and socioeconomic status showed a perception of the Northwest neighborhood as a nicer and safer place for all groups. The young were found to form a community consistent with the model of a "community of limited liability." Specifically for older and highincome residents it is proposed that the demographic change, which made the neighborhood more status homogeneous, had an important socially integrating impact, consistent with Claude Fischer's notion of "critical mass" creating viable subcultures, since they were found, in opposition to common expectations, to have increased attachment and social contacts in the neighborhood.

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Section: Chapterll Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon

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Three generations of urban renewal policies: analysis and policy implications

Carmon

1999

Geoforum

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Gender, Class, and Gentrification: Enriching the Debate

Bondi

1999

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I take up the debate about gender, class, and gentrification. I accept the importance of class formation in understanding the relationship between gender and gentrification, and seek to supplement existing empirical studies by further exploring gender and class practices in a range of neighbourhoods, Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative sources I present a detailed analysis of social change in two inner-urban neighbourhoods and one suburban neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland. I emphasise the importance of the patterning of life courses in the articulation of class and gender practices, and draw attention to the different ways in which gender, class, and life course arc interwoven in particular cities and neighbourhoods.

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A Gentrification Research Agenda for the 1990S

Cited by 18 publications

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An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon

An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon

Three generations of urban renewal policies: analysis and policy implications

Gender, Class, and Gentrification: Enriching the Debate

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