How To Use Gentrify In A Sentence
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Her attempts to gentrify descriptions of bodily functions regularly ended up in the book of fame in the back.
BAD MEDICINE
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It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role.
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John O'Leary was 25 years younger, a white sound engineer who'd bought his six-bedroom townhouse just as the neighborhood was beginning to gentrify.
For Mr. Bronson, a neighbor's kind act led to a new family
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I thought, uh-oh, they're going to gentrify the place.
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Speakers' Corner has recently been titivated to look more like a garden and it must be a concern that this sacred spot will be lost to us because of a bunch of commercially minded, gentrifying bureaucrats and some simpering talk about the kiddies' Christmas outing.
Speakers' Corner tradition is under threat
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We're talking onomastics: for generations town planners have mistakenly thought that a street name has the power to beautify and - more importantly - gentrify.
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Early returns from eastern Ward 1 had the State Board of Education candidate trailing incumbent Dotti Love Wade, but late precincts from the ward's gentrifying south and west reaches pushed him to a hard-won victory.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 3, 2010
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City leaders promised solutions, but many of them involved gentrifying poor neighborhoods.
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Many are priced out as Manhattan continues to gentrify, says Bronx Councilman James Vacca.
Housing occupancy declines, but rentals up in some spots
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But perhaps Warsaw's most intriguing showplace is the Fabryka Trzciny, a rehabbed former marmalade factory in the now artily gentrifying Praga district.
East of the Louvre
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College towns, upscale suburbs, and newly gentrifying urban neighborhoods were indeed becoming Democratic as blue-collar areas moved rightward.
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Her attempts to gentrify descriptions of bodily functions regularly ended up in the book of fame in the back.
BAD MEDICINE
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Regional and local development has often invested in physical resources, such as gentrifying an area with a new museum, art gallery, or library.
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In this context, "quality of life" is an array of ordinances being used against people deemed "abnormal" or "undesirable," especially in gentrifying areas.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 2
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Actually, I found that in the gentrifying neighborhoods, the turnover rate among long-term residents was actually lower than it was in other parts of the city," because most residents see changes like lower crime rates and the revivification of derelict buildings as positive developments.
A Whole Foods Fight in Boston
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The FSF has argued with that ever since, that the response to a disaster caused by a negligent approach to fans' safety became an opportunity for "crowd control": to police potential hooliganism more keenly and gentrify the grounds.
Fans' terrace campaign still standing but facing an uphill battle| David Conn
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Others worry that the plan is an excuse to gentrify areas that have become valuable in the years since public housing went up.
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The drawback to adding roughly 1,000 new residents a week and gentrifying urban neighborhoods is that Sydney could lose its distinctive flavor and drive out the artists who made those areas appealing.
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He has insisted his club will gentrify the deprived north inner-city area around Parnell Street.
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The city is going to knock down this building and gentrify the neighborhood.
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Unless we find a way to lock in affordability, land use around stations will intensely gentrify neighborhoods, and poor people will be continually pushed farther and farther out to the suburbs and less well served urban areas.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola
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On the Downbelows' debut, Toronto punk vets (ex-members of Trigger Happy, Tirekickers, et al.) gang together for an ode to their favourite rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.
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If we can tear down a block of historical buildings in Hong Kong and replace them with the 'skysore' like the Lippo Centre in less than a year why does it take eons to gentrify a bit of the turnpike?
Jeff DeGraff: The Innovation Do-Over List
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It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
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In our city most of the anti-war/peace movements are white b/c most of the activists in our city who are Black or Latino are already spending most of their available time on issues pertaining to communitywhich is hard when the city is trying to destroy, otherwise known as gentrify, your community.
When do you not mind breaking the law?
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It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
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The university wanted to put the $125 million, 330,000-square-foot building at the edge of campus, where it would help move the college southward and further gentrify the area.
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The political representatives of the Windsor-Essex region have romanticized the concept of "gentrifying" Windsor to attract financially-secure retirees; considering Canada's demographics, said process is inevitable.
The Shadow
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By the late '70s, graffiti had moved from the trains to the walls, and become a key symbol in the efforts of mayors to gentrify low-income communities of color.
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Unless we find a way to lock in affordability, land use around stations will intensely gentrify neighborhoods, and poor people will be continually pushed farther and farther out to the suburbs and less well served urban areas.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola
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This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
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Those tiny forks, often themselves shaped like corn-cobs, are twee, and a vain attempt to gentrify an ungentle food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Re: “I see no reason why such a rich, gentrifying neighbourhood shouldn†™ t†™ t have a successful high street†- Cabbagetown is a similar (if much wealthier) neighbourhood but parts of Parliament still look like a war zone/dollar store museum.
» Cities for People: The Melancholy of East Chinatown • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
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As inner-city neighborhoods gentrify, blight and intransigent poverty are moving out to the suburbs.
How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs
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gentrify a row of old houses
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gentrify the old center of town
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He also noted the trend toward "gentrifying" community colleges through screening out immigrant students and tied in particular the changes in programs at Medgar Evers College where a special program for providing education to prisoners was cancelled by the new president of the college.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Who's Listening?
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The campaign group Friends of Leeds Kirkgate Market fear the council is looking to gentrify the facilities and change its character – a charge denied by Leeds markets champion councillor Gerry Harper, who says things cannot stay the same forever.
Markets under threat as shoppers go online for fruit and veg
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A little bit of the unmet demand does push less desirable rowhouse neighborhoods to gentrify, but much of the demand ends up pushing people to suburban, car-dependent areas where they don't want to be.
More walkable urbanism is good for everyone
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All of these seem to be part of a wide-ranging plan to gentrify the downtown Cleveland area.
