Urban And Urban Migration Essay

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Urban and Rural Geographies study and focus on the processes that each entity—rural and urban space—have been taking and adopting after World War II. Geographers conclude that both rural and urban spaces are socially constructed; the role of the economy, social migration, and the degree role of the state or local government contribute and impact the development and creation of spaces. For example, when industrialization arrived to the United States, it transformed some cities—Chicago, New York, and Detroit—into very important urban centers, and also, it caused thousands of people to migrate from less developed areas to these booming cities for job opportunities, especially African-Americans from the South. Furthermore, geographers see the features …show more content…

The main reason for gentrification is to improve urban or rural abandoned places, and young or middle-age people are the ones who push for a recreation and improvement of forgotten places because they want to recreate and live in a place by adjusting something old to fit modern needs. Also, gentrification is triggered by the importance of health and well-being of people around forgotten places or less well maintained. For instance, cities are too packed that spaces for relaxation are not common, so gentrification offers people in the inner city greenspaces with a “potential to facilitate physical activity, social connectedness and mental relaxation” to urban population (Cloke 608). In addition, when people migrate to new reconstructed places in urban or rural areas, they do it because they count with a financial backing. As a matter of fact, gentrification is aimed to attract economic resources, but instead, it turns out to attract new upper-middle people to live in those expensive places with all the commodities and …show more content…

One reason is that gentrification make people, who live in the inner city, to identify themselves to belong to a particular class of citizens. Since gentrification began, people have been moving to the reconstructed places in the inner city, so they began to act as the rest of the people in that area according the social expectations and norms from people living in that space. A second reason is that gentrification fits certain type of people according to their sexuality. Gentrification is not only triggered by people with a normal sexuality, but gay and lesbian neighborhoods made by gentrification make them to feel secure and safe; they do not feel and be seen as out of place. A third reason is that gentrification is attributed for social construction, which it places people with special boundaries. Because they live in a certain place, people decide to maintain a social boundary that makes them to distinguish from the rest of others, mainly through the location of their

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