Understanding the Community, Site & Building
What is Gentrification?
Gentrification is often defined as the transformation of neighborhoods from low value to high value. This change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses. Displacement happens when long-time or original neighborhood residents move from a gentrified area because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes.
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
While gentrification can benefit an area by decreasing crime, improving the economy, and increasing property values it can have the negative consequences of pricing out former residents and changing the culture of the community. We need models of planning and development that involve community improvement without displacement. Gentrification is not place-making but place-taking. It can destroy our collective memory of places, contributing to the global homogenization and commodification of everything. Are the benefits and costs unevenly distributed? How can interior architecture help to mitigate this phenomenon?
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EXPLORING A ROLE FOR INTERIOR DESIGN
Student Design Charrette. The Impact of Gentrification
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Charrette Presentation Template
11X17 Poster Template
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Documents on Data about the Little Haiti Neighborhood / Community.
1. Little Haiti Miami Dade County
2. Little Haiti Miami Rents
3. 2015 Final Report Little Haiti Housing Market
4. City Data
Little Haiti (Lemon City) neighborhood in Miami, Florida (FL), 33127, 33137, 33138, 33150 detailed profile
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