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1. Gentrification is . . .
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From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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In Chapter 1, author Leslie Kern, examines the history of gentrification, how it became one of the focuses of her career as a feminist geographer, and an overview of the book’s chapters. Topics addressed include the west-end Toronto neighbourhood the Junction, the notion that gentrification “saves” communities, issues of affordability and urban poverty, the origins of the term gentrification, the language of gentrification (revitalization, reurbanization, renewal, revival, and regeneration), tourism-based gentrification, and gentrifications effects on people especially racialized and marginalized communities through physical displacement (ie: evictions, rent increases, and demolitions).
