Gentrification, the process of urban renewal by which preexisting natives of an area are displaced by young, affluent individuals, has plagued the Park Slope region of Brooklyn in the past several decades. This sociopolitical demographic transition initially began approximately at the start of the 1970s, and has been increasing at a staggering rate ever since.
“This transformation, outlines the transformation we are just beginning to see, is being expressed more vividly through altered geography of social relation-more correctly, through a rescaling of social processes and relations that creates new amalgams of scale, replacing the old amalgams broadly associated with ‘community’ ‘urban’ ‘regional’ ‘national’ and ‘global’…in effect, a new urbanism” (Smith 430).
Works Cited
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Smith, Neil. “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy.” Antipode, 34: 427–450. doi: 10.1111/1467-8330.00249 (2002). Print.
