Gentrification Processes In The City

Abstract

Due to the fact that gentrification is a phenomenon of a global nature, it was considered important to survey it in post-socialist city. Both scientific literature and research in Central Europe have appeared only recently therefore it was decided to examine the gentrification in Łódź. It turned out that the gentrification processes in Łódź are in the initial phase and they are carried out mostly by the local authorities, developers, private tenement owners. In Łódź academic centre a certain part in the gentrification process is played by students who choose as their residence the peripheral housing estates and the old, renovated tenements in the inner-city of Łódź. The perspective of further studies of gentrification in Łódź would be to trace the displacement of the middle class within the city, as well as the influx of new gentrifiers.