Billy Penn11d
Gentrification drives robust conversation among residents
More than 20 local residents shared their viewpoints and concerns regarding gentrification at a WHYY Bridging Blocks event on ...
Drexel University5y
A Measure of Gentrification for Use in Longitudinal Public Health Studies in the US
This map shows what the gentrification measure we created looks like in Philadelphia between 1990-2000 and 2000- 2010. You can see large areas gentrifying in Center City and University City. Notice ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian5d
Pro-Palestinian activists demand divestment, highlight Penn's 'complicity in genocide' during march
Several activist groups on campus and from the greater Philadelphia area co-hosted the march, which moved down Walnut Street ...
Tuesdays with Toomey10d
The Opposite of Gentrification?
The Citizen’s latest Development…for Good event featured Jumpstart Germantown’s Ken Weinstein and Jordan Parisse-Ferrarini ...
Next City26d
Displacing Black Time and Space in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, which for many years consistently ranked highest among the top ten most impoverished big cities in America, is a place where gentrification and racialized segregation have manipulated ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian11d
Ingrid Holmquist | Penn owns Philadelphia, but it doesn’t have to own us too
Columnist Ingrid Holmquist explores the contradiction of reaping the benefits of an institution that has such an extensive past of harming its community.
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On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods
For some historically Black Philadelphia neighborhoods, however, the disinvestment and decline over the decades has been so extreme that they are not vulnerable to gentrification anytime soon.