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The Impact of Gentrification Phenomena in Thailand

  • Chunyarat Nititerapad and
  • Kongkoon Tochaiwat

22 November 2023

The principal objective of this review paper was to study the impact of gentrification phenomena in Thailand using a research methodology combining a review of the existing literature and a desk analysis of case studies, focusing on two main intercon...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,072 Views
23 Pages

26 July 2023

Green gentrification has emerged as a critical and dynamic research field in environmental justice and gentrification. Few studies have systematically reviewed the current state of green gentrification literature. This paper adopts a CiteSpace-based...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,689 Views
28 Pages

Progress of Gentrification Research in China: A Bibliometric Review

  • Fengbao Liu,
  • Xigang Zhu,
  • Jianshu Li,
  • Jie Sun and
  • Qinshi Huang

12 January 2019

Gentrification, as a term introduced into China 20 years ago, has now become a topical word in scholarly discussion. This paper for the first time used the software of multiple pieces to analyze literature on gentrification between 1996 and 2017 in C...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,286 Views
19 Pages

11 November 2021

The purpose of this study is to explore the aspects of “gentrification” and “degentrification” other than economic factors. To this end, this study focused on the gentrification situations occurring before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the Itaew...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,023 Views
15 Pages

Predicting Gentrification in England: A Data Primitive Approach

  • Jennie Gray,
  • Lisa Buckner and
  • Alexis Comber

Geodemographic classifications are useful tools for segmenting populations and have many applications but are not suitable for measuring neighbourhood change over time. There is a need for an approach that uses data of a higher spatiotemporal resolut...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,980 Views
20 Pages

Remote Sensing of Urban Poverty and Gentrification

  • Li Lin,
  • Liping Di,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Liying Guo and
  • Yahui Di

9 October 2021

In the past few decades, most urban areas in the world have been facing the pressure of an increasing population living in poverty. A recent study has shown that up to 80% of the population of some cities in Africa fall under the poverty line. Other...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,254 Views
14 Pages

Gentrification as an Emerging Source of Environmental Research

  • Juan Uribe-Toril,
  • José Luis Ruiz-Real and
  • Jaime De Pablo Valenciano

19 December 2018

Gentrification is a controversial term that refers to certain changes in neighbourhoods that result in the economic and social transformation of a low-income area into one of higher value, moving or pushing out the old population and businesses. The...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,604 Views
19 Pages

Mental Health Outcomes in Barcelona: The Interplay between Gentrification and Greenspace

  • Montserrat Zayas-Costa,
  • Helen V. S. Cole,
  • Isabelle Anguelovski,
  • James J. T. Connolly,
  • Xavier Bartoll and
  • Margarita Triguero-Mas

Greenspace is widely related to mental health benefits, but this relationship may vary by social group. Gentrification, as linked to processes of unequal urban development and conflict, potentially impacts health outcomes. This study explores the rel...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,929 Views
13 Pages

The research herein presented aims to analyze the impacts of gentrification in a medium-sized Mallorca municipality because of the tourism accommodation changes. Using the available data from national and regional official sources, qualitative resear...

  • Review
  • Open Access
117 Citations
27,288 Views
23 Pages

Green Gentrification and Health: A Scoping Review

  • Na’Taki Osborne Jelks,
  • Viniece Jennings and
  • Alessandro Rigolon

Urban greening initiatives are often linked to enhanced human health and wellbeing, but they can also be a driver of gentrification. To date, few studies have focused on how green gentrification shapes health. In this scoping review, we analyzed exis...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,928 Views
12 Pages

3 February 2021

Contemporary Brooklyn fictions, as a genre, are centrally concerned with gentrification and authenticity. This article situates literary Brooklyn and these concerns in relation to the United States at the national level. Thinking about Brooklyn’s gen...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,083 Views
11 Pages

Gentrification and Air Quality in a Large Urban County in the United States

  • Hollis Hutchings,
  • Qiong Zhang,
  • Sue Grady,
  • Lainie Mabe and
  • Ikenna C. Okereke

Introduction: Increases in industrialization and manufacturing have led to worsening pollution in some components of air quality. In addition, gentrification is occurring in large cities throughout the world. As these socioeconomic and demographic ch...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,530 Views
14 Pages

11 August 2022

International studies have shown that urban parks lead to rising residential prices and, consequently, gentrification effects. However, the studies on whether the size of the park drives gentrification are controversial. In this article, using the in...

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  • Open Access
109 Citations
16,933 Views
17 Pages

Gentrification is a growing concern in many urban areas, due to the potential for displacement of lower-income and other vulnerable populations. This process can be accelerated when neighborhood “greening” projects are undertaken via gove...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,512 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2020

This study aims to analyze the consequences of the gentrification process as a result of tourism on the elderly inhabitants. Firstly, the concept of gentrification is reviewed, a process that is no longer exclusive to large cities but has spread to s...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,924 Views
14 Pages

25 January 2023

In recent years, tourist cities worldwide have experienced rapid tourism gentrification, which was caused by the spread of P2P accommodation-matching digital platforms. The research problem is set as follows: whether tourism gentrification caused a p...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
19,737 Views
13 Pages

Gentrification and Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Comparison of Measurement Approaches

  • Mahasin S. Mujahid,
  • Elizabeth Kelley Sohn,
  • Jacob Izenberg,
  • Xing Gao,
  • Melody E. Tulier,
  • Matthew M. Lee and
  • Irene H. Yen

Gentrification may play an important role in influencing health outcomes, but few studies have examined these associations. One major barrier to producing empirical evidence to establish this link is that there is little consensus on how to measure g...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,662 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2018

Recently, local shops and small houses in Seoul have been converted to cafes, western style restaurants, and large chain stores. These changes, recognized as commercial gentrification in residential areas, are now a big issue in Korean society. This...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,343 Views
22 Pages

The subject of the research is the attractive Kościelna Street connecting two prestigious districts of the city of Poznań (Jeżyce and Sołacz). The oval ring layout of the street with its characteristic green separation strip sets the tone for the ent...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,985 Views
12 Pages

19 September 2022

Tourism gentrification has become a social issue in tourist cities worldwide. This paper’s research question is as follows: has tourism gentrification caused a population decline in tourist cities? This study aims to clarify the statistical rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,661 Views
22 Pages

There have been increasing calls in gentrification studies to examine the geography of gentrification in slums, as little is known about the patterns and processes of slum gentrification, especially in sub-Saharan African cities where slums house ove...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,784 Views
16 Pages

8 February 2020

The driving force of super-gentrification shapes a complex system in which multiple dynamic factors interact with each other. This paper takes the dynamic factor system of super-gentrification as the research object and uses the Interpretative Struct...

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  • Open Access
2,717 Views
23 Pages

12 November 2025

This study examines how gentrification reshapes neighborhood crime through two underexplored dimensions: third places and demolitions. Traditional research on gentrification and crime has often relied on broad socioeconomic indicators, such as proper...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,930 Views
15 Pages

Young Pioneers, Vitality, and Commercial Gentrification in Mudan Street, Changchun, China

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Zuopeng Ma,
  • Dawei Li,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yao Tong and
  • Chenggu Li

13 April 2020

The pioneers who started the gentrification process have contributed significantly to the activation of gentrified neighborhoods, but are often overlooked in top-down urban governance strategies. We studied the core participants, who were avant-garde...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,719 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2023

If gentrification is a violent form of “un-homing” (Elliot-Cooper et al., p. 494), then it is no surprise to witness an intensification of photographic practice in gentrifying areas; photography is, after all, fundamentally a place-making...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,095 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2018

Gentrification is a widespread urban phenomenon across the post-industrial world. However, rural gentrification has been explored insufficiently in the context of China’s unprecedented urbanization. By reviewing the redevelopment processes in Z...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,602 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2020

This study examines commercial gentrification, focusing on areas where commercial gentrification occurred or was expected to occur in Seoul, Korea. To identify the general phases of commercial gentrification, we used data collected from January 2015...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
15,465 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2017

The objective of this study was to map the distribution pattern of gentrification, showing the adverse effect of urban parks. The study adopted the perspective that urban parks, which have thus far been featured in urban planning without much critici...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,708 Views
19 Pages

15 August 2022

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has experienced a rapid urbanization process, with an increasing urban population. In recent years, with the improvement of the rural living environment and the rise of the urban middle class, more and m...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,621 Views
11 Pages

Intensive tourism in historic city centers is causing socio-spatial effects that are already visible to society. This has led politicians and academics to focus on the issue, creating a debate about gentrification in certain central urban areas which...

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1,536 Views
15 Pages

29 July 2025

Zoning policies play a critical role in shaping the geography of urban and suburban development in the United States. Using data from the National Zoning and Land-Use Database and tract-level census data from 42 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, we cla...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,765 Views
18 Pages

28 January 2023

Transit-oriented development has been a widely accepted tool among transportation planning practitioners; however, there are concerns about the risk of increasing residential property values leading to gentrification or displacements. Therefore, it i...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,595 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2022

The Knoxville Urban Wilderness (KUW) is a successful example of a growing global movement to utilize vacant urban land as many cities “de-urbanize”. A key question is whether this particular kind of green space promotes social inequality...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,296 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2022

Recently, gentrification has occurred not only in Seoul, the capital, but also nationwide in Korea. In other countries such as the United States and Europe, it occurs in various areas such as housing, commerce, and culture, but in Korea, it occurs in...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,843 Views
24 Pages

Does Tourism Gentrification in Urban Areas Affect Tourists’ Value Co-Creation Behavior?

  • Yumei Xu,
  • Zhipeng Yao,
  • Yechen Zhang,
  • Shanting Zheng,
  • Ruxing Wang and
  • Naiju Wang

1 September 2025

Tourism gentrification refers to the urban transformation process whereby middle-class neighborhoods evolve into affluent enclaves through leisure and tourism development, significantly impacting urban regeneration and spatial planning. This empirica...

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21 Citations
6,418 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2021

Within the neoliberal context of today’s urbanism, a growing number of inner-city megaprojects aim to transform brownfield sites—accompanied by gentrification and tourism. However, there is no systematic review exploring the interplay between these p...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,209 Views
14 Pages

28 December 2023

Before the Coronavirus Disease pandemic of 2019, many tourist cities suffered from over-tourism, and tourism gentrification seriously impacted the living environment for residents. This study aimed to clarify the statistical relationship between the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,481 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2024

Rural gentrification is a significant issue in rural sustainable development that can impact many aspects of rural areas, such as the transformation of the rural class structure and changes in the rural housing structure. This study is based on the c...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,548 Views
23 Pages

8 October 2024

This paper is the result of a preliminary research phase aimed at identifying the phenomenon of gentrification in Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood, examining the perception of the phenomenon and the urban planning tools that have been adopted un...

  • Review
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40 Citations
14,861 Views
19 Pages

As the modern urban–suburban context becomes increasingly problematic with traffic congestion, air pollution, and increased cost of living, city planners are turning their attention to transit-oriented development as a strategy to promote healt...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,670 Views
16 Pages

12 August 2021

This exploratory study draws on qualitative interviews to investigate respondents’ perspectives about gentrification in their Chicago neighborhood. Prior research has demonstrated that place-based networks are crucial for the well-being of low-income...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,465 Views
19 Pages

7 November 2023

Tourism gentrification in traditional industrial areas presents issues regarding the privatization of public spaces, transformation of public services to cater to tourists, erosion of community social bonds, and the commodification of regional consum...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,801 Views
18 Pages

Gentrification on the Move. New Dynamics in Spanish Mature Urban-Tourist Neighborhoods

  • Josefina Domínguez-Mujica,
  • Jesús M. González-Pérez,
  • Juan Manuel Parreño-Castellano and
  • Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera

Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism invol...

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69 Citations
14,060 Views
25 Pages

5 January 2021

This study analyzes the role of residents in urban tourist destinations affected by the increase in tourist flows, which have generated various problems such as tourism, gentrification and the emergence of tourism as a threat to residents. The role o...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,898 Views
22 Pages

4 September 2025

Urban renewal has driven historic conservation districts to experience a series of changes characterized by gentrification. In the 21st century, internet traffic can be fully monetized. The intervention of the internet has made the gentrification pro...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,226 Views
19 Pages

Food and nutrition trends cater for many more functions than simply satisfying the physical need for food. Given the fundamental significance of everyday food it seems clear that it is also relevant in urban development processes. Nutrition trends an...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,730 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2023

Existing research has noted a clear interaction between touristification and commercial gentrification; however, the differences between these two coexisting but distinct phenomena require further research. This study uses online big data and quantit...

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  • Open Access
1,952 Views
19 Pages

1 August 2024

Using a quantitative method, this paper examined the role of physical activity well-being before physical activity participation and gentrification architecture pursuit in 481 respondents (including 377 with childhood left-behind experiences) in Xi&r...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,511 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2019

Urban centres in Europe have been recently affected by touristification processes which endanger their sustainable development. In this context, education in urban sustainability is gaining great importance at all stages of education. It has been not...

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1,908 Views
27 Pages

6 August 2025

While existing studies document physical and economic impacts of new-build gentrification, the temporally protracted trauma of indirect displacement in communities adjacent to redeveloped areas remains understudied. Employing constructivist grounded...

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