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Table 1. Tiered definitions of gentrification

Change	Warde (1991)	Davidson and Lees (2005)
Social	A process of resettlement and social concentration, a process of displacement of one group of residents with another of higher status, entailing new patterns of social segregation.	The social upgrading of a locale by incoming higher income groups; direct or indirect displacement of low income groups
Economic	An economic reordering of property values, a commercial opportunity for the construction industry, and generally, an extension of the system of private ownership of domestic property.	The reinvestment of capital
Cultural	A gathering of individuals with a putatively shared culture and lifestyle, or at least shared, class-related consumer preference.
Physical	A transformation to the built environment, via building work, that exhibits some common distinctive, aesthetic features and the emergence of certain types of local service provision.	Landscape change

Figure 1 Average house prices for rural and urban England, 2000–2009. Source: CRC (2010).

Figure 2 Lower quartile housing affordability, 2006–2009. Source: CRC (2010).

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