How does gentrification and ghetto(s)/segregation relate in an city. What happens through time?

 

How does gentrification and ghetto(s)/segregation relate in an city. What happens through time?

Gentrification seems only to be a mechanism by which "downwardsly mobile (unqualified) middle classes," in what is seen as a rational extension of the metropolization of the profession to the home sphere, are replaced by 'upwards mobile middle classes and their supply of new graduates' (Donzelot2013). As Sofie Vermeulen and Eric Corijn (2013) suggest in Brussels, "these central districts were only 'allowed to undergo ethnically based growth during the decline era because of the deindustrialisation and rapid peri-urbanization of Brussels. Today, the dynamics are metropolitan" (p. 181). This understanding firmly positions gentrification inside the "normal - 'biological' - city life cycle as a living agency" (Burgel 2010) and thus leads to other terms like 'urban regeneration.'

Firstly, the multi-scale approaches of gentrification, which relate the process to contemporary macroeconomic changes of global capitalism as well as to transformative position for nation states (Smith 2002; Harvey 2011), clearly demonstrate that metropolis is not an inevitable process (Clerval 2013). Whereas gentrification proceeds logically across metropolis, this does not mean this

A second form of artificial resistance, less complex still by the stigmatizing case of the Ghetto, pits gentrification in the face of dilapidation or impoverishment of inner-city neighborhoods. In the Jacques Lévy views on the subject (2013), this second binary interpretation is exacerbated: "I prefer to call what you call 'federators.' Many who seem to have the means to live elsewhere and prefer to settle alongside poorer citizens in the neighborhood have saved North and European cities from collapse. See what happens when they leave, as in Detroit - or Marseilles." This understanding once again prevents us from grasping the concurrent character of the processes at work. Development is "natural."

Ultimately, the existence of a paradigm whereby we must choose between these two choices alone shows that we do not embrace a theoretical structure that attempts simultaneously to take account of all the complex and numerous aspects of capitalist development, which is the pitching between gentrification and peri-urbanization or gentrification and ghettoization. Gentrification, peri-urbanism and social relegation (whether in urban areas or the outside suburbs) can be interpreted in this sense as separate aspects of the same spatial growth mechanism of deprivation (Harvey 2011; Smith 1982). Gentrification is not the opposite of segregation but rather a process which forms a part of the segregation dynamic by transforming the borders of the social division of space at the expense of the right of the working classes to urban areas.

Step-by-step explanation

Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community's history and culture and reduces social capital. It often shifts a neighborhood's characteristics (e.g., racial/ethnic composition and household income) by adding new stores and resources in previously run-down neighborhoods. In reality, the voices which defend the "positive" interpretation of gentrification contribute to the politicization and moral interpretation of urban transformation analysis, by removing the capitalistic framework of social production from the city (accumulation strategies, class relations, role of public authorities, etc.) The problem is that such depoliticization exacerbates the dispossession of the working class by fostering a political fatalism that dispels them all the more.