Lincoln Park: The Role Of Gentrification In Inner City

“The Mission community first faced the threat of gentrification in the late seventies as wealthy Arab and Asian families began purchasing large parcels of land in the area”(Phillips). Mission was labeled as one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Francisco about 25 years ago. With the dot com era, small businesses such as bodegas, 99 cent stores and rent controlled apartments are disappearing at an alarming rate. They

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Zone A was the inner areas of the cities where business and cultural activities take place 2. Zone B was the area that was considered for immigrants and poor individuals 3. Zone C was for the working class 4. Zone D was for wealthier homes and shopping centers 5. Zone E was the suburbs and for the estates of the wealthy   Burgess 's model is considered outdated by some for various reasons including the fact that this model cannot always hold true, moreover, it is based on a period of time when American cities were growing at a fast rate.

Wicker Park was just a prairie before two brothers Charles and Joel Wicker purchased land along Milwaukee Avenue in 1870. When the Great Chicago Fire happened, and the city was starting to rebuild itself some chicagoans looked beyond the city limits. The land attracted families wanted to rebuild after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The Great Fire spurred the first wave of development. Homeless chicagoans looked for building new houses.

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Inspired by european city rebuilding projects, American cities started clearing away older neighborhoods and creating grand avenues with impressive buildings. The only problem with the growing population was finding housing for the new residents. In Document 6 Nash explains how urban geography changed with emerging central businesses, few people living downtown, middle class residential areas stretched out beyond working class neighborhoods, and the growth of the suburbs which led to better transportation. Many of the rich lived in palatial mansions in the heart of the city while the moderately well to do took advantage of less expensive land on the outer edges of the city thus leading to what was known as the growth of the suburbs. However the poor could not afford housing in the city or in the suburbs and this led to the growth of tenement housing.

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To begin with, throughout the years of 1945 and 1985 there has been a large change within the demographics in suburbanization. The cause of this major change was the rize of the upper middle class and the returning veterans of World War II. More people began to get higher educations in return they would get higher wages than the lower class. The people who started to getting payed more started to move down to the suburbs because they no longer wanted to live in the ugly ghettos where the lower

The economy gave birth to a middle class and consumerism in the cities. In addition to this trend, there was mass immigration as American prosperity became apparent internationally. At the time, many portions of the world such as in Europe were experiencing strife. This led to migration to the US. Most of these immigrants were poorly skilled and uneducated.

CONTEXT This paper is written in the context of globalisation and informal settlements in Metro Manila. It discusses how the informal settlements face a competition for shelter with the wealthy class of the society because of the constant increase in land prices in the centre of the city. It makes two major arguments: the shelter crisis in developing countries is a major consequence of globalisation due to rising land values and increasing housing demands. And, the informal settlements created due to this are forgotten by the government, urban planners and policy-makers in the city. The author has tried to prove these two arguments by taking the case study of Metro Manila where the government’s only focus is to drive the export-oriented economy and attract a large sum of investment.

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Urban renewal and gentrification are two terms used to define the rebuilding and/or restructuring of “dilapidated neighborhoods into flourishing (and more economically valuable) urban spaces…” (Book, P.447). However, urban renewal and gentrification can have negative impacts on the lower class, and lower-middle class citizens, which reside within the communities being redeveloped by increased rent to even forceful eviction. However, to fully understand this topic, urban renewal and gentrification need to be defined, and determined how it effects the economy and citizens, understood how urban renewal can be balanced with the needs of the citizens, and demonstrated how urban renewal has effected the District of Columbia. Urban renewal is defined as “the transformation of old neighborhoods with new buildings, businesses, and residences,” and this phenomenon has both positive and negative effects on any community (Book, P.447). Consequently, urban renewal is linked to gentrification which is an “attempt to change the socioeconomic composition of old and poor neighborhoods with the remodeling of old structures and building of new residences and shops to attract new middle- and high-income residents (Book, P.447).

When Harlem was established, it was a place meant for the rich upper class. However, a financial collapse shortly before caused an issue, and many black people needed a place to live, so it became a center of black culture. However, the Harlem Renaissance in the late 1990s brought with it a measure of gentrification: new construction and renovation. There was an increase in people buying homes and investing in their homes/the neighborhood in Harlem. Construction took over as townhouses and apartment buildings began being built in Harlem.

Issue: Within the last decade, San Francisco has dramatically changed. San Francisco’s working class people and poor neighborhoods underwent drastic economic and racial changes from the 1990s to mid 2000s, resulting in the undeniable gentrification of the districts. San Francisco’s gentrification has reached a ridiculous new extreme, making it the most expensive city in the country, outstripping even Manhattan. The beginning of the issue was right after the dotcom and Tech industries started drastically moving to the Bay Area. In 2005, new technology companies like Google, Facebook, and Cisco began attracting thousands of high-paid employees to the bay.

It was the era of the Black Panthers, Black Power movements and a City turned into an eyesore. That is when most of the white people started moving out of Newark and the southern black people started moving north. By the early 70s, Newark had a different swag called CC. The music industry was located in Newark, but slowly moved to New York City after the riot. Before then entertainers performed outside on any block that the people allowed them to plug their mics & amplifiers into their electrical sockets.