The Social Construction of a Gentrifying Neighborhood: Reifying and Redefining Identity and Boundaries in Inequality

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 98-128

  Hwang, Jackelyn ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

boundaries; gentrification; mapping; neighborhoods; Philadelphia; racial inequality

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; MAPPING; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84952767428     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087415570643     Document Type: Article

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