When I lecture, I often explain to audiences that
equitable development is not an anti-gentrification initiative. My reason is
the incumbent residents who lived in urban centers before they became fashionable places to reside again,
have always wanted improvements in services, infrastructure, schools, and
environmental quality. All citizens want these things. It would be a grave
error to presume that residents who didn’t abandon existing communities in an
attempt to pursue suburban lifestyles were content with mediocrity.

Instead of creating a new term to describe the process
of neighborhood change, I would focus on strategies for managing the process.
Including strategies for helping residents to guide the change process rather
than react to it.

Great question.