Ansalone, George and Judith N. DeSena. "Gentrification, Schooling and Social Inequality.

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Research Quarterly. 33.1 (2009):61-76. Print.

The journal article "Gentrification, Schooling and Social Inequality" explores how gentrification
contributes to the separation of students in schools based on their intelligence level and curriculum.
This concept of separation of students by ablility is known as tracking. Through interviews, this journal
article focuses on gentrification in the Greenpoint-Williamsburg area in Brooklyn and how gentrification
in this area comes into conflict with schooling. The newer residents of Greenpoint-Williamsburg tend be
more affluent and therefore are sending their children to non-local schools. This is maintaining the
tracking system in New York because the children of wealthier, more educated parents end up in the
same school while the children of older residents who are less affluent in Greenpoint-Williamsburg are
still going to the same local schools.

With the collection of interviews, statistics, and sources, "Gentrification, Schooling and Social Inequality"
provides reliable information about the effects of gentrification and tracking in New York. The authors
aggregated information from 23 references as well as provided a proper citation for each references, all
of which appear to be from a sound origin. Also, the authors properly included in-text citations
throughout the journal. The journal contained organization and clarity that pulled the reader through all
aspects of the issue. An introduction was given about the issue, as well as research methods, outcomes,
solutions and a conclusion.

This journal will assist my paper because it discusses how gentrification in certain areas can have both
positive and negative results in a society. Positive results includes the perpetuation of tracking and how
tracking allows students to learn at their own pace without being compared to smarter students while a
negative aspect is the fact that their is now social inequality in public schools. I need to be aware of both
good and bad aspects of gentrification and this journal article acknowledges many different outlooks of
gentrification and schooling.

Sampaio J.C.R. "Gentrification: Is it Possible to Avoid It?" City and Time. 3 (2007):27-37. Print.

The academic article "Gentrification: Is it Possible to Avoid It?" argues that gentrification is an inevitable
happening in urban districts. The article is organized into three parts: the implication of gentrification,
the persistence of gentrification, and the questioning of avoidance of gentrification. Areas such as
Bologna, Italy and Marais Paris are primarily discussed because of the importance of their architectural
history. Physical, economic and social revitalization are explained to be the main reasons why
conservation of urban areas occurs. These three aspects are constantly changing and challenging society
therefore gentrification is going on more and more frequently. The article comes to the conclusion that
gentrification is the "inevitable substition of the native population" (Sampaio 33).

By assisting the argument that urban places are vulnerable to gentrification with examples of cities
effected by revitolization and references from many authors and experts on the subject, Sampaio
successfully backs up his claim that gentrification is an ongoing phenomenon. Although there is not a
sufficient amount of backgroud information about the source of the article, the article was published
under a licensed publisher and it is organized in the Chicago Manual Style providing citations from
reliable sources.

Considering that my argument supports gentrification in cites, this article is pertinant to my paper
because it introduces relevant reasons as to why gentrification takes place. The article also discusses
issues such as delinquencey in neighborhoods and preservation of run-down architecture. These are
some important reasons that will back up my argument about why revitalizion of neighborhoods should
happen.

Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater and Elvin Wyly. The Gentrification Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. Print.

"The Gentrification Reader" compiles information and ideas from writings and contemporary literature
to illustrate all the aspects examples of gentrification. These aspects include the positive and negative
impacts, influence of urban planning, and state and community policies regardin gentrification. The
writings in this bookcover the issues gentrification comes into conflict such as displacement and housing
as well as areas in which gentrification has helped to make communities better.

The definition of gentrification and the impacts that gentrificant has on society are clearly and intricately
discussed in "The Gentrification Reader." The magjority of the information this book contains is about
modern occurences of gentrification and how it is effected the present and future. The authors all vast
knowledge in the field of urban planning and provide insightful information relevent to gentrification.
Loretta Lees and Tom Slater are professors of Human Geography and Elvin Wyly is an associate professor
of geography.

In my argumentive paper I want to discuss cases in which gentrification has helped the quality of life in
communities and how it has taken certain areas out of "slum." "The Gentrification Reader" talks about
how Cabrini Green in Chicago went from being an area of decay to an active housing market and how
gentrification helped resolve the balance between strategies to revitalize run-down public housing. This
source connects with other sources because it provides more details and examples about the issues of
gentrification I will be discussing in my paper.