Archive for Gentrification
March 9, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Creative Cities, Diversity, Economics, Families, Gentrification, Place making, Social Justice
Sharon Zukin had come to Greenwich Village and the Shrine of St. Jane not as a pilgrim but to wax sardonic.
Ms. Zukin, a Brooklyn College sociology professor, stared at the modest red-brick town house on Hudson Street that once was home to Jane Jacobs, whose 1961 book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” celebrated the joyous hodgepodge of New York’s neighborhoods: the working-class tailor and the artist, the Italian grocer and the writer, living cheek by jowl.
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February 4, 2010 · Filed under Creative Cities, Diversity, Gentrification, Grassroots, Homelessness, Housing, Public Space, Real Estate, Shelter, Social Justice
Hamburg has been trying to woo the much-coveted “creative class” for years in a bid to secure its future. Now the city has become the front line in a bitter conflict over gentrification, with artists squatting buildings in protest against investment plans and members of the far-left scene attacking private property — and even police.
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October 2, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Big Box, Density, Economics, Gentrification, Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
Strip malls are in virtually every American city, but they’re rarely an important part of those cities. Ava Bromberg says they can be. Her idea is to turn strip malls into community-owned hubs that generate capital within their neighborhood and keep it there.
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June 29, 2009 · Filed under Crime, Gentrification, Infrastructure, Media, Public Life, Public Space, Safety, Urban Agriculture
First, they took away the cops parked at key intersections and replaced them with with mounted, overhead cameras. This idea didn’t start in my city, Seattle, but when it turned out to be a revenue-generator, even if it reduced safety, City Hall took to it with a vengeance.
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June 26, 2009 · Filed under Crime, Density, Diversity, Families, Gentrification, Planning, Revitalization, Urban Design
Green space is out, high-rises are in as ‘garden’ community razed to sow prosperity.
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June 25, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Beauty, Diversity, Gentrification, Great Streets, Heritage, Pollution, Public Space, Revitalization, Vandalism
Use this interactive guide created by English Heritage to see how an urban environment can be improved. Roll over the red spots to see problem areas and click to reveal what can be done to eliminate them.
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May 26, 2009 · Filed under Density, Diversity, Gentrification, Urban Structure
An urbanism is much more than building. In an urbanism, a city’s builders (and their tested designs and engineering solutions) and the city’s users (and their culture of urban living and commerce) are organized together into a single community that creates, governs, and renews a productive unit of the city–their neighbourhood, their district, or their commercial corridor. This approach contrasts markedly with the way most urban development is done today. Today’s industrial approach to city building separates the builder (and most aspects of ‘product’ design) from the end consumer. This permits standardized, scaled construction, but it does not produce an efficient, productive, or resilient city. Urbanism serves a particular purpose. It aligns the economic or social strategies of different interests located in a particular urban place and translates those strategies into an efficient built system, much as a carefully engineered manufacturing complex gives life and legs to a company’s business model.
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May 26, 2009 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Diversity, Emergence, Gentrification, Planning, Urban Actions
In pre-modern map making processes, “…unknown land within the “known” world was frequently filled with pseudo-topographies, including speculative mountain ranges, vegetation, and rivers.”(1) As map making became increasingly influenced by scientific paradigms and empirical procedures during the eighteenth century it became less acceptable to fill in the blank spaces of the map with fictional speculations and instead those areas that had not been surveyed by Europeans were retained as blank.
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May 21, 2009 · Filed under Diversity, Economics, Gentrification
The sustainable city of the future will rest on the revival of traditional institutions that have faded in many of today’s cities.
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March 30, 2009 · Filed under Campus Planning, Creative Cities, Gentrification, Investment, Real Estate
Harvard’s massive expansion into Allston has had to be slowed down, in part because of the slowing economy. Many in the neighborhood worry that means they’ll be left with a barren landscape for way too long, instead of the mixed use development Harvard has promised. Meanwhile, in another part of the neighborhood, Boston College is battling some of its neighbors over plans to expand on the former Archdiocese Headquarters Campus.
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