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Hawthorne Boulevard: Commercial Gentrification And The Creation Of An Image, Rachel Ann Hardyman
Hawthorne Boulevard: Commercial Gentrification And The Creation Of An Image, Rachel Ann Hardyman
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Portland's Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard illustrates commercial gentrification in progress. Once a declining service district, "Hawthorne" is now one of the city's most popular shopping streets. Tracing and classifying businesses, using address listings from city directories, gives an accurate picture of changes since 1980. Three parallel trends can be distinguished in the makeup of the business mix: a shift from services to retailing; a move towards a regional, rather than a neighborhood, market area; and a cultural upgrading associated with the influx of increasingly expensive stores. Classification also aids in the definition of a tipping point at which revitalization became gentrification. …