Examination of social roles of gentrifiers : a case of seniors who moved into a downtown Chicago focusing on their social activities

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  • ジェントリファイヤーの社会的役割の考察 : 米国シカゴ市都心回帰高齢者の社会参加活動を事例に
  • ジェントリファイヤー ノ シャカイテキ ヤクワリ ノ コウサツ : ベイコク シカゴシ トシン カイキ コウレイシャ ノ シャカイ サンカ カツドウ オ ジレイ ニ

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The back to the city movement was occurred in 1990s in the U.S., which gave rise to phenomenon of gentrification. Author focused the actors, gentrifiers, who were generally described as negative character in that they ran low-income residents out of the cities. In this paper however, author examined gentrifiers' social roles using interview data got by seniors who moved into a downtown Chicago. Author concluded that gentrifiers contributed to their urban communities to certain extent as author found that they were very active and participated lots of social activities including contributory activities.

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  • 評論・社会科学

    評論・社会科学 (109), 35-62, 2014-07-20

    The Association of Social Studies, Doshisha University

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