Final project UP 206A – Kawano March 15, 2011 Ben Palmquist
What is gentrification? New residents replace old residents in a disinvested inner-city neighborhood Source: Peter Marcuse, “Gentrification, Abandonment and Displacement: Connections, Causes and Policy Responses in New York City.” 28 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 195 (1985). (disproportionately young, white, professional, well educated and higher income) (disproportionately low income, people of color, and the elderly)
How does it all add up? Increasing income Increasing educational attainment Increasing median rent Gentrification hotspots income educational attainment median rent
Gentrification is: focused on the east side focused near Metro rail stations and condos/lofts correlated with changes in race/ethnicity by Ben Palmquist Project Area
US Census Bureau (2000 Census & ACS) educational attainment (percent change in portion of people with a bachelor’s degree or higher) income (percent change) rent prices (percent change in median gross rent) other variables considered: migration/mobility, tenure, median home value
(percent change in median family income)
(change in pct. of population with a bachelor’s degree or higher)
(pct. change in median gross rent)
How does it all add up? Increasing income Increasing educational attainment Increasing median rent Gentrification hotspots income educational attainment median rent
Net departuresNet arrivals
Where is there gentrification? Most evident in Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Downtown Also apparent in Koreatown, Hollywood Mid- Wilshire and parts of Santa Monica, Inglewood and Burbank capital investment in condominiums, lofts and Metro rail lines does not appear to affect gentrification
Modeling Metadata Buffering Original data Geocoding Clipping Inset map Aggregating attribute fields Creating indices Charts and images