An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.
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Richard Florida is Sorry
Sam Wetherell analyzes urban theorist Richard Florida’s apparent about-face on the benefits of luring members of the “creative class” to depressed cities in need of revitalization. Governmental leaders in major cities around the world have used Florida’s 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life, […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Weird in the Daylight
The story of Sadlack’s Heroes, the Raleigh dive bar that helped galvanize the alternative country scene in the 1990s.
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A Price Point that Would Guarantee Exclusivity
In Brooklyn, historically black Bedford-Stuyvesant has been experiencing rapid gentrification: “As a new order has emerged, the ghosts of the previous one are everywhere, but their echoes are getting smaller, snuffed out by the tides.”
Posted inReading List
Between Life and Death, There’s San Francisco: A Reading List
The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Current Hot Chicken Craze Is Also about Race and Gentrification
In Nashville, an exploration of the current obsession with the city’s signature dish: hot chicken.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Searching London for My ‘Third Place’
Years after agoraphobia kept her housebound, Jessica Brown walks the streets of her adopted city seeking deeper connection.
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Searching London for My Third Place
A personal essay in which Jessica Brown reflects on reading sociologist Ray Oldenburg’s, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, and walking the streets of her much gentrified adopted city seeking deeper connection.
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Vanishing Point
“Without the right kind of help, Oakland could lose yet another piece of its vibrant, artistic legacy.” As affordable residences and art spaces are becoming increasingly scarce, artists in Oakland are forced to move elsewhere. Laney Tower journalists take a look at the history, present, and uncertain future of the city’s arts and culture scene.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The ‘Artwashing’ of East Los Angeles
In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.
