![]() ![]() Let us now explain the changes we see in the Chicago area or cities in general based upon the conceptual guide that we developed from our construal of Smith’s views on the frontier myth and the process of gentrification. As the materially-driven real-estate industries and markets continue to flourish, the easier it displaces low-income people from their immediate social environment and social and political milieu, thus, endangering the very notion of a shared history. The problem with the frontier myth and the process of gentrification therefore, poses serious threats on the very notion of a “shared history”. As may be inferred from the aforementioned quotation, Smith contends that the issues of the frontier myth and gentrification have certain ideological commitments attached at their very core. Smith therefore, views both concepts as closely related concepts. ![]() Insofar as gentrification obliterates working-class communities, displaces poor households and converts whole neighborhoods into bourgeois enclaves, the frontier ideology rationalizes social differentiation and exclusion as natural and inevitable. "The frontier myth makes the new city explicable in terms of old ideologies. Revitalizing and upgrading of deteriorated urban property.
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