Despite a proliferation of research on neighborhood effects on health, how neighborhood
economic development, in the form of gentrification, affects health and well-being in the USA …

Research in the neighborhood effects tradition has primarily concerned itself with
understanding the consequences of growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods. In recent …

Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of
neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that …

Gentrification has inspired considerable debate, but direct examination of its uneven
evolution across time and space is rare. We address this gap by developing a conceptual …

This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long
Form data, to study demographic processes in neighborhoods that gentrified during the …

This paper examines whether the economic gains experienced by low-income
neighborhoods in the 1990s followed patterns of classic gentrification (as frequently …

Neighborhoods are an important source of inequality, and neighborhood change may lead
to changing opportunities for residents. Past research on neighborhood upgrading tends to …

This article develops and assesses the concept of triple neighborhood disadvantage. We
argue that a neighborhood's well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic …

Urban greening is a tool of urban planning to mediate problems related to urban living and
betterment of residents' quality of life. Given the inequitable distribution of this urban public …

Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind
that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define …