You wanna be where you can see, troubles are all the same. A case study to the sociability within a gentrifying neighbourhood. Name: Jule Geeris UvA ID number: 11724749 Date: 28-06-2018 Program and track: Master Urban Sociology Supervisor: dhr. prof. dr. J.C. Rath Second reader: mw. dr. O. Sezneva Email adress:
[email protected] ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ 2 Table of contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................... 5 Summary research ...................................................................................................................... 6 A big building in the middle of a gentrifying neighbourhood ................................................... 7 Theoretical framework ............................................................................................................. 11 Invasion of middle class people ........................................................................................... 11 Improving social order in deprived neighbourhoods ........................................................... 11 The search for authenticity ................................................................................................... 12 The purest form of social interaction ................................................................................... 13 Behaviour in public place ..................................................................................................... 14 Places of sociable