gentrification

How To Use gentrification In A Sentence

• This award-winning architect engages in community work without causing gentrification to occur.
• This law came about as a response to the substantial displacement of moderate- and low-income families resulting from gentrification and the conversion of buildings into condominiums that started in the 1970s.
• Although you can still catch a glimpse of Copenhagen's seedier side, the gentrification of the area has brought along the usual mix of eclectic fashion stores, cafes and gourmet restaurants, some of the best of which are in Kødbyen, the meatpacking district. Top 10 budget hotels in Copenhagen
• But the 80-year-old Korean War veteran and life-long resident of Long Island City has become a bit of a local celebrity for his efforts to capture the area's semi-industrial townscape before it completely succumbs to gentrification. Long Island City Clicks With Honorary 'Mayor'
• By 1800, everybody was a janissary, as the corps was swollen to as many as 400,000 names, based on corrupt and marketable muster rolls, which supported a process of gentrification of the janissary families.
• The Bowery is well on its way to gentrification.
• However central property was to gentrification, the felonious accumulation of it and the consequences for having done so are not remotely Thompson's concern.
• I lived the bulk of my life on these tough-but-safe streets long before the word "gentrification" entered the Park Slope lexicon, using this subway station as my gateway to the wide world. NY Daily News
• If great novels defy categorization, then in the game of literary gentrification, which writers can transcend genre while still employing its tropes, and which cannot?
• Modest gentrification has led to galleries doubling up as branding companies, photographers as film-makers and graffiti artists as graphic designers. Times, Sunday Times