The counterpart of displacement is reembedding. The disembedding mechanisms lift social relations and the exchange of information out of specific time-space contexts, but at the same time provide new opportunities for their reinsertion. This is another reason why it is a mistake to see the modern world as one in which large, impersonal systems increasingly swallow up most of personal life. The self-same processes that lead to the destruction of older city neighbourhoods and their replacement by towering office-blocks and skyscrapers often permit the gentrification of other areas and a recreation of locality.

XREF: Giddens' disembedding concept connects to discussions of globalization's dialectic — homogenization vs. renewed localism, relevant to urban geography and gentrification literature.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 342