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Gentrification vs Hypergentrification - What's the difference?

gentrification | hypergentrification |

As nouns the difference between gentrification and hypergentrification

is that gentrification is the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents while hypergentrification is extreme, excessive gentrification.

gentrification

English

(wikipedia gentrification)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

    • Related terms

    * degentrification

    See also

    * gentrify * gentry

    hypergentrification

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Extreme, excessive gentrification.
  • * 1995 , Mark Cramer, Funky Towns USA
    • Furthermore, with hypergentrification , how many or us would be priced out of the neighborhood?
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 15, author=Wm. Ferguson, title=Where Is the New Brooklyn?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Brooklyn accumulated its hipness, he says, by avoiding the “gauche” sort of hypergentrification that overwhelmed SoHo — perhaps because it had so much further to come. }}