Gentrification and urban gentrification denote the socio-cultural changes in an area resulting from wealthier people buying housing property in a less prosperous community.

Ley's book The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City, in which he describes patterns of urban gentrification in six Canadian cities, was pivotal.

In recent times, the suburb has been subject to significant "urban gentrification" owing to this investment, transforming it from a utilitarian business hub to a desirable residential zone within a tram ride from the city.

With urban gentrification and higher housing costs, the vast majority of London's working-class Irish-Catholic community have moved further out from Kilburn to Cricklewood.

As such it relates to the plight of blue-collar workers and the victims of urban gentrification, he said.

The development of vacation spots follows the logic of urban gentrification.

Nicetown-Tioga saw a brief spurt of urban gentrification in the early-mid 2000s.

Art asylums would create a kind of social gentrification like what happens in urban gentrification.

Second, that the unwritten subtext of this pictorial treasure trove is a lament for all that is lost under the relentless wheels of urban gentrification.