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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue7,P.887-909

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英文

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作者单位

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

摘要

Researchers have determined many of the factors that make neighborhoods susceptible to gentrification, but we know less about why some gentrification-susceptible neighborhoods gentrify and others do not. Some studies claim that internal neighborhood features such as historic housing stock are the most powerful determinants of gentrification, whereas other studies argue that a lack of strong affordable housing policies is the primary driver of neighborhood change. In this article, we move beyond a focus on singular determinants to recognize the interplay between these variables. We develop a socioecological model of gentrification in which we characterize neighborhood change as shaped by nested layers we categorize as people (e.g., demographics), place (e.g., built environment), and policy (e.g., housing programs). We then test the model in the five largest urban regions in the United States to begin to determine which variables within the people, place, and policy layers best predict whether a neighborhood will gentrify.AcknowledgmentsWe thank former University of Colorado Denver graduate students Mehdi Heris and Camron Bridgford for helping us prepare the data sets for the empirical analysis and gather literature on gentrification and gentrification resistance.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlessandro RigolonAlessandro Rigolon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research centers on environmental justice issues related to urban green space and their impacts on health equity. His current work falls in three areas: policy determinants of inequities in park provision, drivers and resistance to gentrification fostered by new parks (i.e., “green gentrification”), and the public health impacts of urban green space on marginalized communities.Jeremy NémethJeremy Németh is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver. His research looks at issues of social and environmental justice and the politics of public space. His work can be found at jeremynemeth.com.