Open AccessGentrification, revitalization and children raising. Family gentrifiers in a post-socialist city
Author(s) -
Paulino Bunio-Mroczek
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
przegląd socjologii jakościowej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1733-8069
DOI - 10.18778/1733-8069.13.4.05
Subject(s) - gentrification , gentry , context (archaeology) , sociology , focus group , qualitative research , raising (metalworking) , economic growth , gender studies , political science , geography , social science , law , archaeology , anthropology , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering
The aim of the article is to provide a case study of a post-industrial, post-socialist city analyzing gentrification processes in their initial phase within the context of a large municipality-led revitalization program with focus on experiences of family gentrifiers. Inspired by Robert A. Beauregard’s framework (1986), the analysis concentrates on ‘the potentially gentrifiable neighborhoods’, ‘the potentially gentrified’, ‘the facilitators and active agents of gentrification’, and ‘the potential gentry themselves’. The empirical part of the text is based on qualitative study, that is, selected interviews collected within a research project on gentrifiers in the process of social revitalization, conducted in the city of Lodz (central Poland).