Gentrification has happened since ancient times ; in Britain large villas were replacing small shops by the third century.

Gentrification of Philadelphia's neighborhoods continues into the 21st century and the city has reversed its decades-long trend of population loss.

A property boom beginning in the 1970s coupled with the advent of oil fueled processing of North Sea oil has led to an inexorable process of Gentrification with offices and studio businesses and flats on the market for more than £ 2. 4 million.

Gentrification has brought more upscale retail and nightlife establishments.

Gentrification has yet to take root within this once dynamic neighborhood.

Gentrification in Logan Circle has resulted in a dramatic change of neighborhood demographics ; since the 1990s, thousands of white young adults have moved into the neighborhood, while thousands of black adults have moved out of the neighborhood.

Gentrification has brought back some of the children of Melbourne residents who moved to middle and outer suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s.

Gentrification has also had a significant effect, and remains the primary means of a " natural " remedy.

Gentrification was not long in following, though the economic recession of the 1990s slowed it somewhat.

Gentrification and the resulting high cost of housing, however, have displaced many immigrants and long-time African American residents, particularly those with young children, as well as many small businesses, but the community still retains a degree of diversity, most evident in its array of international shops and restaurants.

Gentrification not yet completed in some neighborhoods, crime, graffiti, etc., are associated with Upper Manhattan.

In the Brookings Institution report Dealing with Neighbourhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices ( 2001 ), Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard say that " the term ' gentrification ' is both imprecise and quite politically charged ", suggesting its redefinition as " the process by which higher income households displace lower income residents of a neighbourhood, changing the essential character and flavour of that neighbourhood ", so distinguishing it from the different socio-economic process of " neighbourhood ( or urban ) revitalization ", although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

In Luc Sante's essay The Gentrification of Crime, which appeared in the March 28, 1985 issue of The New York Review of Books, he offered the following analysis of the character:

Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community's history and culture and reduces social capital.

Gentrification is evident throughout certain districts.

Gentrification and land speculation is having an impact, with high rates and mortgage interest rates forcing some people on fixed incomes to relocate off the island.

Gentrification is occurring at a different pace, rate, and style than Soho, East Village, etc., due to different demographics.

Gentrification during the late 1990s is said to have forced many performers to move away.

Their headquarters, WORSHP House, at 1724 Filbert Street, is also an intentional community and forms the nucleus of the organizations's West Oakland Reconciliation and Social Healing Project and its associated Alternatives to Gentrification Program.

Gentrification efforts have also started to transform the demographics of distressed neighborhoods, recently leading to the first rise in the District's population in 60 years.

* Against Gentrification: Marcel Diallo sees a black cultural district where Oakland's the Bottoms neighborhood now stands-San Francisco Chronicle article, January 21, 2007

Gentrification and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people (" gentry ") acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities.

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report Health Effects of Gentrification defines the real estate concept of gentrification as " the transformation of neighbourhoods from low value to high value.

Gentrification and grassroots: Popular support in the revanchist suburb.

Puerto Rican self determination and Gentrification or displacement became the primary focus early on in Chicago due to Mayor Daley's ruthless patronage machine that eventually evicted the entire Puerto Rican and several Mexican communities of that city from prime real estate, near downtown and near the lakefront areas.

Gentrification began in 1969 with the renovation of the Beath-Dickey House by Bob Griggs and his partner Robert Aiken.

Gentrification ensured that this end became home to boutique fashion stores.

" From Freedman's Town to Uptown: Community Transformation and Gentrification in Dallas, Texas ," Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Vol.

Chinatown, Manhattan | Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.

Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.

Manhattan's Chinatown (), home to the largest enclave of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere, is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bordering Lower East Side to the east and Little Italy to the north.

With an estimated population of 90, 000 to 100, 000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia, with many of its residents Cantonese-speaking and originating from various regions of China, mainly from Guangdong and Fujian provinces, and Hong Kong.

The Chinese gangs controlled certain territories of Manhattan's Chinatown.

The New York Times says that the Flushing Chinatown now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown in terms of being a cultural center for Chinese-speaking New Yorkers ' politics and trade.

On August 2011, a new branch of New York Supermarket opened on Mott Street in the center district of grocery and food shopping of Manhattan's Chinatown.

These two supermarkets are amongst the largest Chinese supermarkets carrying all different food varieties within the long time established Cantonese community in the western section of Manhattan's Chinatown.

Unlike most other urban Chinatowns, Manhattan's Chinatown is both a residential area as well as commercial area.

Most Fuzhou immigrants are illegal immigrants while most of the Cantonese immigrants are legal immigrants in Manhattan's Chinatown.

With the coming of illegal Fuzhou immigrants during the 1990s, there is now a Fuzhou Community within the eastern portion of Manhattan's Chinatown which started on the East Broadway portion during the early 1990s and later emerged north onto the Eldridge Street portion of Manhattan's Chinatown by the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.

Since the Fuzhou immigrants have a strong cultural and linguistic background difference from the Cantonese people, the Fuzhou immigrants were unable to integrate well into Manhattan's Chinatown, which was still very Cantonese dominated and as a result they carved out their own separate Chinatown on East Broadway.

Not only did the Fuzhou immigration influx establish a new portion of Manhattan's Chinatown, they also played a role in property values rising up quickly during the 1990s in contrast to during the 1980s when the housing prices were dropping.

As a result, landlords were able to generate twice as much income in Manhattan's Chinatown, Flushing's Chinatown and eventually Brooklyn's Chinatown.