Meppelink, Tobias (2021) Who are Amsterdam’s gentrifiers? Master thesis.
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Abstract
Currently, the social geography of urban landscapes is changing. One process driving these changes is gentrification, which recently has gained increasing academic, public and media attention. For one, concerns are voiced about the city of Amsterdam becoming an enclave for the rich. This thesis aims to determine how household-level resources and restrictions influence the likelihood of moving into a gentrifying Amsterdam neighbourhood. It elaborates on existing literature on residential mobility and gentrification, through which the importance of five characteristics comes forward, namely income, education, age, ethnic origin and household type. Using data from the Dutch national statistics office (CBS) and the Bureau of Research, Information and Statistics (OIS) Amsterdam, the city’s gentrifying neighbourhoods are determined, after which the characteristics of households moving into Amsterdam’s neighbourhood are analysed with a multinomial logistic regression, distinguishing between the in-movers of gentrifying neighbourhoods, those of lower-income nongentrifying neighbourhoods, and the in-movers of higher-income neighbourhoods that are not eligible to gentrify. The results show that the aforementioned five household characteristics are significantly associated with moving into a gentrifying neighbourhood, as opposed to a non-gentrifying one. The findings cohere with the presupposed notion that gentrifiers are more likely to be affluent, high educated, young, of native origin, and childless as opposed to in-movers of lower-income neighbourhoods that are not gentrifying. Additionally, this study finds that the place of residence prior to moving also affects a household’s odds of moving into a gentrifying neighbourhood.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Mulder, C.H. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2022 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2022 10:37 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3773 |
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