Gentrification
What Gentrification means in Geography GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The process by which wealthier people move into, renovate, and restore housing and sometimes businesses in inner cities or other deteriorated areas.
The process where wealthier people move into a run-down inner-city area, improving housing but often displacing poorer original residents.
The buying and renovating of properties in run-down areas by wealthier individuals.
Topics that use Gentrification
- Globalisation and economic change create challenges for the chosen UK city that require long-term solutions (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The chosen UK city is being changed by movements of people, employment and services (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The context of the chosen UK city influences its functions and structure (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Deindustrialisation
- Connectivity
- Deprivation
- Globalisation
- Site
- Situation
- Sustainable urban living
- Urban-Rural Fringe
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