Browsing by Subject "Gentrification"

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Effects of urban renewal and gentrification on social reconstruction

Perera, MMM; Navaratne, NMP; Wijesundara, J [Conference-Full-text]

Gentrification is a consequential effect of urban renewal which usually functions towards making a city an economic powerhouse in the process of urban development. Gentrification contains promises of “urban revitalization”; ...
Istanbul version 2.0: the struggle between modernisation and historical heritage the case of Sulukule

Pak, EÖ; Yilmaz, E [Conference-Abstract]

Istanbul has become a construction site by the beginning of 1990s following a dramatic change in policies on housing and urbanization policies. While the new middle class was invading city centre, urban poor was evicted ...
The sense of place and diminishing living heritage in the World Heritage site of Galle Fort

Rajapakse, AC [Conference-Full-text]

The study is on the World Heritage site of Galle Fort in Sri Lanka, its authentic sense of place anddiminishing living heritage. The Galle Fort was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1988 on the basisof criterion IV of ...

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