gentrification Tag Posts Index

Local Issues: After a While, the Fire Dies Out...

Over the past 20 years of lving and doing business in this small city, I have watched an endless parade of "hot button topics" in local politics drift

"Affordable" Housing is NOT Coming Anytime Soon!

When you live in a town — little or large — that considers itself heavily civically involved, it seems like there's almost always some kind of storm in a teacup

The "Character" of Desirable Places to Live vs. "Creeping Gentrification"

When we have a choice — as opposed to forced corporate relocation, or something like that — we tend to seek out places to live that are in alignment with our interests,

Mexican Murals - Hipsterizing My Neighborhood [CCC's Street Art Contest #186]

It was almost exactly a year ago that I saw this mural in my street. I was going to make a post about it, but since I was literally just about to fly to Germany,

Feeling difficult in Gentrified Berlin / ベルリンのジェントリフィケーションに対する寂しさ

We spend our winter holidays in Berlin. We stay at a hotel, being lazy, and take walks. We went out to the city center area called Mitte and I felt difficult by

It Doesn't Get Any Richer Than This...

I was down at a city commission meeting, it had nothing to do with any of our political abnormalities of late but there were plenty down there who hadn't let that

Finsbury Park | Almost everything has changed

Greetings, Following the theme of “changing London”, I’ve been taking trips to parts of the city that I either used to live, or hang out a lot, to see how they’ve

SIgn of the Times: Another One Bites the Dust!

The "Pandemic" may be over, but the sluggish economy continues to take its toll on our local businesses. The latest "victim" is our 40+ year

The Passage of Time and the End of an Era...

As I was running errands in town today, I noticed an unexpected sign in the window on a long-time vacant store front, announcing that the framing shop that once

The Gymmy Jamm Episode 505

Full Metal Ox Day 440 Platinum Year Episode 505 The Gymmy Jamm A block of buildings, former homes, in my neighborhood are about to be demolished. We're looking at

Why so much empty space in London?

So Space. Much Wow! WHY SO MUCH EMPTY SPACE IN LONDON? During my daily walk the other day I crossed 4 large parks in the space of an hour, and that was all in the

Visiting Central London after nearly two years

Visiting Central London NEARLY TWO YEARS AFTER MY LAST VISIT I took a trip to (central) London in late summer, after not having been there in nearly two years! A

'Gentrification' or 'White Flight': Whites Can't Win

Jared Taylor of American Renaissance reports on recent fracases over “gentrification.” Owners of a coffee shop who say they are “happily gentrifying” a run-down

Day 1243: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: muddy hill

“Doing community work in an environment in which the powers that be have decided that you aren't supposed to even be here any more is like climbing a muddy hill:

Obie's Breakfast Club

I've been working with a friend to create some videos that he's helping to facilitate in Columbus around race/urban development/gentrification, etc. It's been good

BLM Mob Is Now Coming For Your House

Don't think that BLM, Antifa, SJW are content looting and rioting in major cities downtown urban areas. They are now moving to the suburbs and "gentrified"

trotz aller Gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg, findet man immer noch Häuser, die ...

... einen Blick zurück in der Zeit erlauben, noch immer so aussehen, wie zum Mauerfall in Berlin vor 30 Jahren...

Shoreditch - The Artsy Fartsy District Of London 🎨🖌

Shoreditch THE ARTSY FARTSY DISTRICT OF LONDON I was out and about in Shoreditch last weekend and figured I should make a video for the London community on here.

bereits letztes Jahr hatte ich über den Abriss der Hochhäuser am Klosterwall ber ...

... ichtet, da waren. sie bereits mit Planen eingerüstet, jetzt sieht man vom Johanniswall aus den Fortgang der Arbeiten, Die Gentrification schreitet voran...

(CSR 과제2) 홍석천은 왜 가게 문을 닫았나? 젠트리피케이션에 대한 고찰

젠트리피케이션에 대한 고찰 젠트리피케이션은 신사를 뜻하는 단어 ‘gentry’에서 파생된 말로 "낙후된 지역을 고급화하다"라는 뜻을 가지고 있다. 하지만 우리 사회에서는 상대적으로 낙후되어, 임대료가 비교적 저렴한 지역이 발전하면서 기존의 원주민들을 밀어내는 현상을 말한다.