Urban studies and planning terminology: Megacity, Gentrification, Ecovillage, Parkway, Grid plan, New Urbanism, Brownfield land, Urban sprawl, Shopping mall, White flight, Urbicide, Megalopolis, Accessibility, Unincorporated area, Terraced house, NIMBY, H

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 166. Chapters: Megacity, Gentrification, Ecovillage, Parkway, Grid plan, New Urbanism, Brownfield land, Urban sprawl, Shopping mall, White flight, Urbicide, Megalopolis, Accessibility, Unincorporated area, Terraced house, NIMBY, Habitat corridor, Megaregions of the United States, Smart city, Ciclovía, City block, Commuter town, Satellite town, Intelligent city, Green belt, Comprehensive planning, Land recycling, Urban open space, Conurbation, Walkability, Local community, Skyway, Blue Banana, Permeability, Facadism, Ekistics, Microdistrict, Land lot, Edge city, Village green, Urban agglomeration, Infill, Tree lawn, Boomburb, Greenway, Subdivision, Aerotropolis, Wildlife corridor, Placemaking, Charrette, Site analysis, Impervious surface, Residential area, Fused Grid, Downtown, Setback, Floor area ratio, Third place, Ecumenopolis, Overdevelopment, Walking audit, Transect, Built environment, City region, United States Micropolitan Statistical Area, Brownfield status, Local Nature Reserve, Regional park, Coving, List of road types by features, Open space reserve, Plattenbau, County island, Brusselization, Strip mall, Build-out, Metroplex, Two-step floating catchment area method, Fractal city, Civic center, Ecology of contexts, Forum, Mahala, Polycentrism, Back-to-back houses, Greyfield land, Barrioization, PLVI, Linear park, Isovist, Types of road, Linear city, City network, Terminating vista, Place identity, Cartesian skyscraper, Greenfield status, General plan, Beautification, Typology, Protected view, Abutter, Foreshoreway, Pocket park, Texaplex, Quarter, MIU, Synekism, Binary distribution, YIMBY, Community separator, Viewshed, Severance, Parklet, Microtown, Taskscape, Zone of transition, Desakota, Community Street Review, Greenfield land, Commercial area, Zone of Visual Influence, District Plan, Office complex, Elbow roomers, Golden Banana, Urbanology. Excerpt: Gentrification and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people ("gentry") acquire property in low income and working class communities. Consequent to gentrification, the average income increases and average family size decreases in the community, which sometimes results in the eviction of lower-income residents because of increased rents, house prices, and property taxes. Taxes paid to the city go up, and the cost of police, fire and welfare services go down. Often old industrial buildings are converted to residences and shops. In addition, new businesses, catering to a more affluent base of consumers, move in, further increasing the appeal to more affluent migrants and decreasing the accessibility to the poor. Urban gentrification occasionally changes the culturally heterogeneous character of a community to a more economically homogeneous community that some describe as having a suburban character. This process is sometimes made feasible by government-sponsored private real estate investment repairing the local infrastructure, via deferred taxes, mortgages for poor and for first-time house buyers, and financial incentives for the owners of decayed rental housing. Once in place, these economic development actions tend to reduce local property crime, increase property values and prices and increase tax revenues. Political action, to either promote or oppose the gentrification, is often the community's response against unintended economic eviction caused by rising rents that make continued residence in their dwellings unfea...