Population Research Discovery Seminars
Some Overlooked Stories: Gentrification in Small Metros and Suburbs
Hyojung Lee, City Planning & Environmental Studies, Seoul National University
Parrington Hall Room 360
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11/08/2024
12:30-1:30 PM PT
360 Parrington Hall
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Most previous gentrification research examines neighborhood ascent only among central, low-income neighborhoods, especially in large metros. In this seminar, I will discuss my previous and current research projects with Kristin Perkins at Georgetown, focusing on gentrification in smaller metros and suburban neighborhoods. The findings of the first project, published in Social Forces in 2023, suggest there are indeed substantial variations in the relationships between gentrification and residential mobility across different metro types. For example, College Town and Retirement Destination metros see the largest positive association between gentrification and residential mobility, while we find a weak association in Inland Empire/Texas Border metros. Building on these findings, now we compare how the neighborhood change process differs across neighborhood types, focusing on the difference between urban and suburban neighborhoods. Our preliminary results present that the prevalence of gentrification has risen, especially in suburban neighborhoods, over the last two decades, suggesting . In addition, the neighborhood trajectories among gentrified suburban neighborhoods are largely inconsistent with those among gentrified urban neighborhoods.
Hyojung Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of City Planning in the School of Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University. His research has focused on the impacts of demographic change on housing markets, the consequences of neighborhood change for urban policy, and the jointness of mobility, residential location, and housing tenure choice. Prior to joining the department, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and an assistant professor of housing and property management at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in urban planning and development and a master of planning from the University of Southern California and a BS and a MS in civil and environmental engineering from Seoul National University.