ABSTRACT
Gentrification is deeply rooted in social dynamics and economic trends. It is a process of class succession and displacement of classes in areas broadly characterized by working-class and unskilled households. Authenticity is understood as the feature that makes a place unique. Authenticity itself refers to the economic, social, cultural and spatial characteristics of a society in its original form. This paper tries to bring out the process of gentrification and the contextual differences that is going on in the foreign countries and Indian context with the help of two case studies. At the end of the paper strategies are suggested to make gentrification a more democratic and egalitarian process.
