Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents and investment. There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification. In pub
Gentrification with a typical ranch house side by side with a modern house in Dallas, Texas, in 2020
Symbolic gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
A building in Mexico City in need of repainting beside a modern loft tower
Local neighbor protesting against tourists in La Rambla (Barcelona, Spain)
Gentry are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estat
Gentrification
…Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment. There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification. In public discourse, it has been used to describe a wide array of phenomena…
Cleric, knight, and peasant archetypes represent the virtues of prudence, fortitude, and temperance, respectively. In classical antiquity and Christendom, prudence and fortitude were seen as the cardinal virtues that should govern society.
This part of a 12th-century Swedish tapestry has been interpreted to show, from left to right, the one-eyed Odin, the hammer-wielding Thor and Freyr. This triad corresponds closely to the trifunctional division: Odin is the patron of priests and magicians, Thor of warriors, and Freyr of fertility and farming.
Europe and the Byzantine Empire 1000 AD
The Three Estates of Christendom by Bartholomäus Bruyn c. 1535