AMST 2440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Piggy Bank, H Street, Baby Boomers
8 May 2017
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Gentrification -- continued: rural gentrification (sometimes called greentrification ) - the gentrification of poorer, rural areas (ex: hollywood stars buy ranches in montana) Ex: farms in vermont vacation homes for the wealthy: studentification . - the gentrification of poorer districts near universities by college students (ex: students move into poorer areas near universities: commerical gentrification sometimes called retail gentrification" or. Stores catering to poor or working-class replaced by stores catering to the wealthy. (ex: h street: tourism gentrification . - gentrification of poor districts by tourists and facilities catering to tourists (ex: airbnb gentrification : industrial gentrification . Factory buildings and warehouses converted to residences or retail for wealthy (ex: nyc"s soho, dc"s ivy city : super-gentrification (or financification ) - global investors > use real estate as piggy bank to store cash. Emergence of first gaybourhoods in the 1970s. (ex: nyc"s chelsea, san francisco"s castro district , 1970s dupont circle)
