Tag: gentrification

On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.

Annette Miller, a longtime resident of West Oakland’s Ghost Town neighborhood, has witnessed the dramatic transformation of the city as changes sweep the block she’s lived on for over 50 years.

A bygone spring: notes from an adopted hometown.

Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.

On the growing tension between techno’s gritty origins and its current velvet-rope tendencies.

How gentrification, apathy, and government negligence failed the residents of Grenfell Tower.

Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.

The staff at Laney Tower take a close look at the past, present, and future of Oakland’s artistic community.

An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.

Years after agoraphobia kept her housebound, Jessica Brown walks the streets of her adopted city seeking deeper connection.

Factory workers and artists struggle to keep their work spaces in this Seoul neighborhood.

Gentrification is about displacement — but also about marketing and invisibility.

The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.

In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.

In Nashville, an exploration of the current obsession with the city’s signature dish: hot chicken.

How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.

After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.

Working as a tenant organizer in New York’s Chinatown opened Esther Wang’s eyes to the ugly—and complicated—realities of gentrification in New York City.

In Radio Silence, Ian S. Port writes about the way musicians continue to get squeezed out of cities like San Francisco, Paris and New York.

Ariana Kelly writes in The Atlantic about the invention and impact of the Mason Jar ─ that simple, indispensible glassware that facilitated rural American life ─ and what its current popularity in urban culture signifies.

Fifty years later, he awoke one fine morning like Rip Van Winkle, and found himself again with his sea bag on his shoulder looking for anywhere he could live and work. The new owner of his old flat now wanted $4,500 a month, and many of his friends were also evicted, for it seemed their buildings weren’t owned by San Franciscans anymore, but by faceless investors with venture capital. Corporate monoculture had wiped out any unique sense of place, turning the “island city” into an artistic theme park without artists. And he was on the street.

The hundreds of people who show up each week to party at Mister Sunday are out for a good time. What the carefree fun-seekers likely do not realize is that they are also a part of a powerful real-estate developer’s plan to remake Industry City—and the Sunset Park community in which it sits—into the Next […]

Brooklyn’s courthouses are being rocked by the “Williamsburg Effect.” The influx of well-off and educated white people to trendy neighborhoods such as Williamsburg is rapidly “gentrifying’’ the borough’s jury pool — and transforming verdicts, lawyers and judges told The Post. It’s good news for prosecutors in criminal cases — and bad news for plaintiffs in […]

Stories about San Francisco’s latest wave of gentrification—perhaps exemplified by the tech bus battles—have been everywhere as of late. But this isn’t the first time critics have mourned the end of San Francisco-as-bohemian-enclave. From “Gentrification’s Price: Yuppies In, the Poor Out” which appeared in the Los Angeles Times on April 3, 1985: In short, San Francisco has become perhaps the most gentrified […]

Gif via Justin Blinder’s ‘Vacated’ project. 1. “Urban Church Planting Plantations.” (Christena Cleveland, March 2014) White suburban churches invade urban spaces with no regard for the churches already in place. 2. “Gentrification Sparks Surge In Landlord Sabotage.” (Lauren Evans, Gothamist, Feb. 2014) Setting fires, locking tenants out and willfully destroying a building’s infrastructure–evil landlords will go to […]