But it's McConaughey's spiritual transformation that is most remarkable.
"It's pretty amazing the transformation that is taking place in Hartford.
The magnitude of the transformation that is needed was evident at pizza night here.
Greater efficiency alone will not be enough to deliver the transformation that is needed.
His scheme made architecture the key to a transformation that is more than physical.
But change is too mild a word for the remarkable inside-out transformation that is now underway.
"Over the last five years, the biggest private equity firms have made a gradual transformation that is now complete".
But now, for the first time in centuries, Valencia's history is being matched by a brisk transformation that is now under way, for Spain's third largest city.
But religious conversion, be it sudden or slow, results in a transformation that is stable and that causes a revolution in those other parts of our personality.
However, she added, "I'm deeply concerned that many people will mistake these reforms for the kind of cultural and institutional transformation that is necessary".
And those stories contribute to a broader association with gentrification a transformation that is as painful for some as it is profitable for others.
