Downtown Tucson’s redevelopment efforts are pitting property owners against each other and driving out renters. It has hit long-time Latino renters especially hard. Redevelopment will also mean more residents but not more postal carriers. Here’s how gentrification looks along one long-time carrier’s route, and what continuity means in a community.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
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In South Korea, Gentrification Goes Global
Factory workers and artists struggle to keep their work spaces in this Seoul neighborhood.
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Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie
Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
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Kristen Arnett on Taxidermy, Memory, and “Mostly Dead Things”
“What’s considered high art? What’s lowbrow? What are those things? That’s something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I’m extremely interested in.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Urban Crisis of Affluence
An investment property is not a home. Neither are cities where most people can’t afford to live.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
The Last Puerto Rican Social Club in Brooklyn
Social clubs were once the glue that held the Puerto Rican diaspora together. Today, there’s only one left in Brooklyn.
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The ‘Creative Class’ Were Just the Rich All Along
Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.
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Whiteness on the Couch
Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
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Grenfell Tower: London, England’s ‘Katrina Moment’
How gentrification, apathy, and government negligence failed the residents of Grenfell Tower.
