At a time when the economy is booming, real estate markets across the country are seemingly going into overdrive as wealthy investors and developers snap up properties in fashionable cities across America. It may be a golden age for wealthy US residents, but the...
In the traditional context of the English language, the word gentry had a very specific definition. It referred to a landowner who did not have to work the land for his income. The word has a connotation of wealth. In urban studies, the gentrification of a...