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	Gentrification Analysis	Shrinking Cities Analysis
Campo	Urban Studies	Urban Studies
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1979	2014
Ideatore	Ruth Glass (term, 1964); Neil Smith (rent-gap theory)	Shrinking Cities research network; Haase, Rink, Grossmann, Bernt, Mykhnenko (synthesis)
Tipo	Pipeline for detecting and measuring neighbourhood socioeconomic upgrading and displacement	Descriptive pipeline for analysing urban population and economic decline, vacancy, and right-sizing
Fonte seminale	Smith, N. (1979). Toward a theory of gentrification: A back to the city movement by capital, not people. Journal of the American Planning Association, 45(4), 538–548.	Haase, A., Rink, D., Grossmann, K., Bernt, M., & Mykhnenko, V. (2014). Conceptualizing urban shrinkage. Environment and Planning A, 46(7), 1519–1534.
Alias	Gentrification Measurement, Neighbourhood Upgrading Analysis, Rent Gap Analysis, Displacement Risk Analysis	Urban Shrinkage Analysis, Urban Decline Analysis, Right-Sizing Analysis, Depopulation Analysis
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	Gentrification analysis is the set of methods used to detect, measure, and map the process by which a previously disinvested, lower-income neighbourhood is upgraded through an influx of capital and higher-status residents, often displacing the existing population. It typically combines repeated small-area census data on income, education, tenure, and rents with housing-market indicators to compute change indices that flag where socioeconomic status is rising fastest. Grounded in Neil Smith's 1979 rent-gap theory, the analysis frames gentrification as the reinvestment of capital in places where the gap between actual and potential land rent has grown large enough to be profitable.	Shrinking cities analysis is the study of cities and neighbourhoods that are losing population and economic activity, tracing the demographic decline, job loss, housing vacancy, and infrastructural over-capacity that follow, and the 'right-sizing' planning responses they provoke. It treats shrinkage not as the temporary failure of a growth path but as a distinct, often persistent urban trajectory requiring its own descriptive tools. The conceptual synthesis by Haase and colleagues in 2014 frames urban shrinkage as a multidimensional process linking population loss, economic restructuring, and changes in the built environment.