Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label, but by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers began using the term pejoratively.
Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and investment. There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification. In public discourse, it has been used to describe a wide array of phenomena, usually in a pejorative connotation.
A damaged early 20th-century building beside a new loft tower in Mexico City's Colonia Roma
Gentrification in the Praga district of Warsaw
Buildings on Mainzer Straße in Berlin
Symbolic gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin