However in urban centres like New York, historic street art continues to be threatened by gentrification.
But while accusations of gentrification are routinely levelled at the area, Heather said he sees things differently.
"New" is a loaded term - people lived in the neighbourhoods we mentioned pre-gentrification.
East of Rye Lane too, from Queen's Road to Nunhead, gentrification is in full effect.
In recent years, somebody spray-painted "cafe gentrification" on the sidewalk in front of popular coffee shops.
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The moment it becomes too comfortable, trendification leads inexorably to gentrification, accompanied by rapid house-price inflation.
But, as I said, for a lot of cities right now, the big problem is not gentrification.
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The nonconformists of Liebig 14 may be a dying breed but they are creating a backlash against gentrification.
It could point toward a backlash against the gentrification of liberalism, the Democratic Party and much of American politics.
But there are darker sides to Pera's gentrification we explored in our programme.
And the increasing gentrification of the Oltrarno is not all bad news.
How Detroit copes with the changing community and gentrification in a city that is 90 percent African-American remains to be seen.
Unless you think that globalization and gentrification will reverse, this shift probably represents the most monumental investing opportunity of our lifetime.
And, basically, this is part of the gentrification program in New Orleans.
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And regardless of their dreams of gentrification, African cities need to make room in their centres for cheap housing for the poor.
An influx of young professionals has transformed its downtown area in the past decade, and the gentrification has begun to spread to other neighborhoods.
Instead, we mostly content ourselves with grudging and sardonic references to the silly side of gentrification, along with a few all-purpose explanations, like broken-window policing.
South Boston's city councillor, Jimmy Kelly, says the motives for the deals are noble ones: to make sure gentrification doesn't displace his longtime, working-class constituents.
Gentrification is going on in unimaginable parts of east London today.
It was again met with critical raves, and this time it caught fire with readers who related to gentrification and the drive to accomplish something worthwhile.
But he admits dealing with gentrification has taken a back burner because the town's struggling to pay its bills and needs to broaden its tax base.
Yandell speculates that they're coming from nearby Sacramento, where the downtown is undergoing substantial gentrification, or perhaps from some other area where prices have gotten too high.
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The trend is driven by real estate prices and is particularly acute in the expensive New York City area, where there is a "real consciousness" about gentrification, Davidson said.
Sure enough, white flight turned Clybourne Park into a crime-ridden ghetto, but one that has since been transformed yet again, this time by the equally inexorable forces of gentrification.
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The wave of development moving along the Bowery in the wake of Sanaa's New Museum with its offhand infusion of sophisticated Japanese design already contains the marks of Meatpacking-District gentrification.
Much of the city remains home to poor neighborhoods with dilapidated housing, and recent gentrification in parts of Washington has pushed some working-class residents to the outskirts of the metro area.
Nearly 40 years later, gentrification became a hot-button topic across America, in Brooklyn especially, and a group of writers led by Jonathan Lethem urged readers to rediscover the long out-of-print title.
But the much-maligned family vacation area (boosters now refer to it as the Pocono Mountains, the Lake Region or simply Northeast Pennsylvania) has seen its share of gentrification over the past few years.
As long as it's engaged in light-hurling bouts of force, or motorcycle chases through a landscape so ominously enveloping it looks like "Blade Runner" after gentrification, "TRON: Legacy" is a catchy popcorn pleasure.
But with the gentrification and subsequent zillionaireification of neighborhoods such as SoHo and TriBeCa, on warm spring and summer nights there's almost as much action up under the stars as on the street below.
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