This article demonstrates how tech professionals commuting to neighbourhoods redeveloped for their work are contributing to their transformation into urban tech campuses: gentrified districts where landscapes, understandings of place and temporalities are shaped by their praise of innovation, emotional detachment from place, and daily ebb and flow. While also resulting in displacement, othering, and the rewriting of histories and geographies, commuters’ contribution to tech-led gentrification contrasts with the emotional investment into place and the sense of permanence gentrifiers use in established residential neighbourhoods they perceive as authentic and progressively remake in their image. While concomitant, it also differs from residential new-build gentrification, as it reinforces not only middle-class norms but also the economic discourse of the high-tech industry, which co-produces these places as elite worker oases. Using South Lake Union, Seattle, WA as a case study, this article aims to contribute to a social understanding of tech-led gentrification: while recent research has focused on residential gentrifiers and on the macro political and economic forces that transform declining urban areas into so-called innovation districts, this qualitative study explores gentrification through the narratives and uses of public space of an urban tech campus’s dominant population – an elite, predominantly young, white, male commuter workforce several times larger than the local residential population.

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通勤到城市科技园区：科技公司及其精英工人共同打造西雅图南湖联合区

本文展示了科技专业人员如何通勤到为工作而重新开发的社区，从而促进他们向城市科技园区的转变：在高档化的地区，他们对创新的赞扬、对地方的情感脱离以及每日的潮起潮落，塑造了景观、对地方和时间性的理解。流动。通勤者对技术主导的中产阶级化的贡献虽然也导致了流离失所、异化以及历史和地理的改写，但与他们对地方的情感投资以及中产阶级人士在他们认为是真实的、逐步改造的既定住宅区中使用的永久意识形成了鲜明对比。他们的形象。虽然同时存在，但它也不同于住宅新建高档化，因为它不仅强化了中产阶级规范，而且强化了高科技产业的经济话语，高科技产业共同将这些地方打造为精英工人的绿洲。本文以华盛顿州西雅图的南湖联合市为案例研究，旨在促进社会对技术主导的绅士化的理解：虽然最近的研究主要集中在住宅绅士化以及将衰落的城市地区转变为城市地区的宏观政治和经济力量。这项定性研究通过城市科技园区的主导人群（主要是年轻的白人男性通勤劳动力，其数量比当地居民人口多几倍）的公共空间的叙述和使用来探索中产阶级化。