RESTORATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
Anti-Gentrification
lower prices begin to draw them back toward
Newly built architecture and parks are
attract many people to the site, but the lack
inherently gentrifiers, but by proactively identifying, supporting, and promoting desired positive behaviors, designers can mitigate the speed and effect of gentrification, allowing for residents and the community to have more control of their future. The three leading causes of gentrification are market factors, demographics, and public policy. Steve Holl, author of Gentrification: Causes and Consequences, mentions that these oftenoverlapping categories are general, but most specific causations will fall within these groups: “The first two, supply-side factors and demand-side factors, might be roughly described as the different sorts of
the center.38 The hyperloop will undoubtedly of commercial programming will make the site simply a central location for people to travel to before their final destination. Commercial programming and residential housing are the two most prominent causes of attracting affluent people to move to a location.39 Demographics (Demand-side factors) focus on the demographic, employment, and cultural shifts that explain why people move to gentrifying neighborhoods. These include a growing shift towards double-income families that are having children at older ages, changes in attitudes and preferences such as anti-suburban sentiment, and
demographic and market forces that push or pull wealthier residents into lower-income neighborhoods. The third category, public
LEADING CAUSES OF GENTRIFICATION
policy, is the set of rules designed by urban policymakers that make gentrification more
DEMOGRAPHICS
or less likely to occur.” This project will 37
touch all three categories by mitigating the negative market factors, promoting poor and diverse demographics, and centralizing and increasing public transportation capacity that falls under public policy.
MARKET FORCES
PUBLIC POLICY
Market factors (Supply-side factors) are influences that push or pull people to and from a specific location. Just as lower prices once drew people to the city’s periphery, now
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Figure 31 (Above) Gentrification Causes The three primary categories leading to gentrification in modern cities.