Gentrification
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CORE DEFINITION
The process by which middle-class or affluent residents enter previously declining urban neighborhoods, renovating buildings and introducing high-end businesses, leading to rising land and rent prices, and ultimately forcing original lower-income residents to move out.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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Spatial manifestation of class displacement. It occurs not only in cities but also in online communities (e.g., Zhihu, Bilibili). Early hardcore/grassroots users created the atmosphere, attracting the masses/capital (middle class), causing the community atmosphere to change and original residents to leave. This is the growing pain of a community.
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The influx of high-income groups drives up land and rent prices, forcing original residents to move out due to costs, resulting in the replacement of the community's population and atmosphere; it is the spatial outcome of capital and class mobility.
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrificationverified
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