Gentrification is the change of a poor district as wealthier people move in. Rapid gentrification, resist gentrification, the gentrification of the area.
The word was coined in 1964 by a sociologist watching it happen in London. The argument about it turns on who is displaced, since the improvements are real and so is the loss of the people who lived there.
1noungentrificationThe change of a poor district as wealthier people move in.
“With gentrification, the cheap cafés on our street became expensive coffee shops and rents shot up.”
gentrification is a change.
Coined in 1964 by the sociologist Ruth Glass, from gentry.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵenh₁-
Old French
genterie — noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners
English
gentry
English, today
gentrification
Built from
From gentry + -ification, after gentrify. coined by Q97232 in 1964. gentry comes from Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA