This paper assesses the contribution of employment location to neighborhood change and to gentrification. At the tract level, average household income change is positively correlated both with the change in average pay for nearby jobs and with the start-year average pay for nearby jobs. The relationship between employment location and neighborhood change is stronger for tracts closer to downtow...

Since the term “gentrification” was coined by Ruth Glass in 1964, this concept and phenomenon it referred to have been subject change. This paper reviews literature employs Ian Hacking’s work investigate how two types of changes—that is, changes phenomenon—are implicated each other. By investigating interaction between a classification its class, becomes possible understand gentrification as, t...

The new availability of big data sources provides an opportunity to revisit our ability predict neighborhood change. This article explores how on urban activity patterns, specifically, geotagged tweets, improve the understanding one type change—gentrification—by identifying dynamic connections between neighborhoods and across scales. We first develop a typology change risk gentrification from 1...

Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca are the co-editors of A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, Resistance in City (NYU Press, 2020). This important new book outlines ways that food gentrification closely intertwined North American cities—not just New York or Vancouver, British Columbia, but smaller, less obvious places like Portland, Oregon; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Durham, Car...

Gentrification has been an important process that rapidly reconfigures the socio-spatial landscapes of Chinese cities. Through case Laochengnan in Nanjing, this article contributes to bringing out multiple and ambiguous positions state new build gentrification roles played by urban struggles shaping process. In particular, we highlight how residents activists exploited fragmented conflicting in...