Gentrification and tourism:

How does the process of gentrification and tourism change our cities?

Question: On paper two, we explored the processes of urban restructuring. On paper three, we will concentrate on two important trends that have been associates with urban restructuring in the United States: gentrification and tourism.

Utilizing at least eight citations of specific pages from at least five of our readings (Frieden and Sagalyn, Anderson, Abu-Lughod, Mele, Fainstein and Gladstone, Judd, and Hannigan) consider how the issues that we have studied to date are related to both gentrification and tourism (and how gentrification and tourism are related to one another.

Cities are always competing among each other have been doing so since the original ideas of cities was established. They each try to be; the most popular city, safest and more appealing to tourism. Thus, it is inevitable that cities would try rebuild themselves and constantly update themselves in such a way that there would be nothing but good things that can be said about their location. Gentrification and tourism both play important roles in the development of cities. Cities try to establish themselves in a more appealing way by gentrifying old neighborhoods and try to attract tourism. In this paper I will attempt to establish how the issues such as economy are related to both gentrification and tourism and how gentrification and tourism are related to one another.

Gentrification and tourism are strongly correlated as structures of operation for cities. Thus; gentrification and tourism greatly rely on heaps amount of revenue, well established marketing, and a significant and vital participation of the public financial support.

Gentrification is the re-establishment and improvement of deteriorating urban areas. It is where the reinvestments of real estate capital into declining neighborhoods near a downtown to create a new residential neighborhood for middle end high-income residents. Gentrification usually take place is low income neighborhoods where the poor and the immigrants resides. Frieden and Sagalyn (1997, 16) mentioned that “to replace the obsolete city with new vision would mean tearing down much of what was here…and in order to save the downtown area, it was necessary to destroy it”. Almost every resident was hurt by this. The areas were completely destroyed and renovated. Majority or all the residential buildings were converted into luxury housing. The residential building that shelter many poor families was converted into luxury condos and co-ops. Many of the industrial space such as old factories were converted to luxury condos to attract middle class residents.