1. The rising housing costs are a result of gentrification.

2. Have we really moved since the 1840s, when gentrification was seen as the only way to educate the masses?

3. They are unwilling "pioneers of gentrification," says Mr Kuhn.

4. The word " gentrification" conjures up images of once-poor urban neighborhoods invaded by cappuccino bars and million-dollar condos.

5. New York's been on a serious gentrification trip for 50 years, but when I was a kid you could still feel the reverberation of the ghettos.

6. Some resent Seattle's gentrification, bemoaning the near-gridlocked traffic and arguing that the city's most interesting neighborhoods have lost their individuality to the property developers.

7. It is not a new cafe heralding gentrification, but rather a McDonald's, newly renovated with the consultation of experts in feng shui, the Chinese practice of creating harmonious surroundings.

8. You have been observing the progressive gentrification of you city with interest.

9. The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs?

10. Gibbs calls it a blatant violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, which forbids using federal money for gentrification.

11. Gibbs says the same strategy is happening again, under the unspoken banner of gentrification.

12. The research findings endorse the view that non-family households in general and women in particular are important agents of gentrification.

13. Boy, could they use a little investment, a little gentrification.

14. Now, as they labor to protect what remains, Chinese preservationists are facing a new, equally insidious threat: gentrification.

15. Urbanization, although seeming to be an irreversible result of population growth, is caused by both gentrification and industrialization in fact.

16. Often, this does not help the originally distressed community if high-end homes are built, a process called gentrification, and no provisions are made for prior neighborhood residents.

17. The Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai is perfectly placed in an area that's undergoing a process of swift gentrification and now calls itself mid-town Mumbai.

18. Residents of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which straddles the old border, pay 30-50% of their income in rent, says Franz Schulz, the district's mayor. "That's why gentrification is so intense."

19. One such place, the World Heritage Site of Lijiang, has seen so many original inhabitants forced out by rising rents and gentrification that the town now feels hollowed out.