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Fig. 1 | Urban Transformations

Fig. 1

From: Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification

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This word cloud contains the words statistically most overrepresented in the neighborhood descriptions for areas in the tertile of NTAs with highest fraction of poverty, compared to the rest of the material. That is, these words are significantly more prevalent when describing a neighborhood with a high level of poverty. The size of the words is proportional to their Log-Likelihood overrepresentation. Place names were filtered out. As the cloud illustrates, poor neighborhoods tend to be represented as cultural experiences, emphasizing raw, hip, cool, colorful, vibrant, authentic, historic urban life, and the local community. There is also a clear prevalence of the symbols of gentrification: art, galleries, music, bodegas, including explicit mentioning of the term gentrification. The use of the word unkempt is in particular interesting, discursively linking the racialized idea of “untidy hair” with the notion of a “gritty” neighborhood

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