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The essence of gentrification is hidden from view. One can walk through Adams-Morgan in Washington, DC, or Queen Village in Philadelphia, through Islington in London, or the Victorian inner suburbs of Melbourne, even Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, and visually assess the gentrification process as expressed in rehabilitated buildings, stores and restaurants designed for the new, affluent and well dressed inhabitants. Yet the forces underlying gentrification have yet to be fully uncovered. Different layers of meaning still clothe the historical specificity of gentrification, and mask the particular confluence of societal forces and contradictions which account for its existence. Journalistic immediacy, redevelopment ideology and positivist research have obscured the essential meanings and the underlying causes.
Robert A. Beauregard (2013) studied this question.