And regardless of their dreams of gentrification, African cities need to make room in their centres for cheap housing for the poor. 不考虑绅士化[]梦想,非洲城市还需要在城中心留出为穷人提供廉价房屋的空间。
Abstract: The paper discusses the differences in the process of gentrification in urban renewal between China and the Western countries. 提要本文从定义、程、制和趋势等方面剖析了旧城改造过程中的中产阶层化现象,并简要分析了中国城市的旧城改造现象及其与西方中产阶层化现象的差异。
gentrification
[ noun ] the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) <noun.act>
Some even worry that the area's new commercial potential may lead to the sort of gentrification that could force the old-time residents out.
In major cities all over the country, gentrification is transforming run-down areas into housing for the affluent, especially for young professionals who can't yet afford rising prices in established neighborhoods.
But despite economic hard times, a shifting ethnic mix and the first inroads of gentrification and homogenization (McDonald's recently came to town, and a supermarket is on the way), Hamtramck survives.
Dick Catlin, a neighbor, credits Mr. Osmer with helping to prevent the gentrification that has come to much of Vermont. "The valley hasn't changed a nickel since we moved in 25 years ago," says Mr. Catlin.
We are going for urban regeneration without gentrification. We are going to build a genuine lower middle class community here.
But neighbors say reasons for a riot that pitted hundreds against police reach beyond tensions created by gentrification and include drug-dealing and homelessness.
She says her work will have implications for other towns where wealthy urbanites have bought weekend homes in increasing numbers, a trend called rural gentrification.