Final project UP 206A Kawano March 15 2011 Ben Palmquist i n Los Angeles 1999 2009 What is gentrification New residents replace old residents in a disinvested innercity neighborhood ID: 294444
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Gentrification
Final projectUP 206A – KawanoMarch 15, 2011Ben Palmquist
in Los Angeles
1999 - 2009Slide2
What is gentrification?
New residents
replaceold residentsin 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)Slide3
How does it all add up?
Increasing income
Increasing educational attainment
Increasing median rent
Gentrification hotspots
income
educational attainment
median rentSlide4
Hypotheses
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 AreaSlide5
Data Sources
US Census Bureau
(2000 Census & 2005-09 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 valueSlide6
Income
(percent change in median family income)Slide7
Income
(percent change in median family income)Slide8
Income
(percent change in median family income)Slide9
Education
(change in pct. of population with a bachelor’s degree or higher)Slide10
Education
(change in pct. of population with a bachelor’s degree or higher)Slide11
Rent
(pct. change in median gross rent)Slide12
Rent
(pct. change in median gross rent)Slide13
Rent
(pct. change in median gross rent)Slide14
How does it all add up?
Increasing income
Increasing educational attainment
Increasing median rent
Gentrification hotspots
income
educational attainment
median rentSlide15
GentrificationSlide16
GentrificationSlide17
GentrificationSlide18
GentrificationSlide19
GentrificationSlide20
GentrificationSlide21
Condos
&
MetroSlide22
Condos & MetroSlide23
Net departures
Net arrivals
Race
& ethnicitySlide24
Conclusions
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 gentrificationSlide25
Modeling
Metadata Buffering
Original data Geocoding
Clipping
Inset map
Aggregating attribute fields
Creating indices
Charts and images
Skills used