English
Studying the phenomena of gentrification of working-class central neighborhoods allows one to understand how initially low-value spaces become attractive, and for whom. However, the differences in the paces, forms, and actors of gentrification between the Pentes de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon and the Bas-Montreuil in the Paris area invite one to disentangle the effects of global social and urban transformations on the one hand, and of specific local contexts on the other, and to emphasize the driving role of the social issues attached to residence.