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Gentrification: voluntary in-migration of the rich; forced out-migration of the poor
1st June 2015
The revitalisation of Britain's inner cities has been a feature of many urban centres since the late 1980s. London Docklands, Manchester's Salford Quays, Cardiff Bay area - they have all seen a transformation from former industrial dereliction to gleaming steel and shiny new constructions. However, as the built environment changes, so does the human one. And it's not all a one-way good-news story. As wealth moves in, the poor move out.
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.