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• The Daily Report

  Changing the City, One Organic Deli at a Time

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, gentrification, diana lind, organic deli | 0

  In a recent blog post about Philly’s ongoing self-hatred a discussion emerged about the appalling lack of activity on the 1300 Block of Walnut Street. In one of the formerly vacant storefronts, we’re now getting an organic deli. How much does one small change mean for a city of 1.5 million people? 

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  Gentrification: What does it really do?

  Jeffrey Knowles | Tue, Jul 15th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: gentrification, starbucks, lower-income minorities, jeffrey knowles | 4

  The process of gentrification and displacement have often been seen as one in the same, but a recent study suggests otherwise. Could it be that gentrification encourages some lower-income minorities to stay in or move to gentrifying communities?

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• The Daily Report

  Where’s the Love? Philly Keeps Losing People

  Diana Lind | Fri, Jul 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, architecture, gentrification, diana lind, taxes, philadelphia inquirer | 18

  Yesterday the Inky dealt the latest blow to the city’s self-esteem: in the past seven years, Philly’s run a population deficit of 68,000. The only American city to lose more people was New Orleans.

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• The Daily Report

  Op-ed: Why Booming Cities Still Need Visionary Mice—and Artists

  Next American City | Mon, May 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: gentrification, next american city, artists, carly berwick, soho, op ed | 0

  Carly Berwick, contributing writer for Next American City, wrote this op-ed in the fall of 2007 about the significance of arts gentrification in SoHo and how the same principles can be applied to other cities

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• The Daily Report

  “Glocalization,” Neighborhoods as Brands

  Brendan Crain | Tue, Apr 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: environment, downtown, crime, growth, seattle, gentrification, boston, internet, denver, manhattan, advertising, brendan crain | 1

  The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000.  It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children.  And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment?  Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface.

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• The Daily Report

  Neighborhoods as Brands: Imagining the Globalocal Future

  Brendan Crain | Thu, Mar 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: gentrification, internet, manhattan, advertising, dubai, brendan crain, lyons, glocalization | 1

  The French city of Lyons is being reproduced on the outskirts of Dubai, presumably for the value of Lyons’ “cultural cachet.” Can something as ephemeral and elusive as the “sense of place” of Lyons be copied and pasted onto a desert thousands of miles from the original?  Might it be possible that, in a world run by adults raised in virtual copies of real-world places refashioned, essentially, as brands, the wholesale reproduction of city neighborhoods could become commonplace around the world?

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• Headlines

  A Friday In Pictures and Words

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 22nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, gentrification, baltimore, harlem, eminent domain, pictures, friday, cloverleaf, tree-oriented planning, historic zone, university of vermont, snowfall, skywalk, words, tenant | 0

  ”The First Real Snowfall of the Season”

  

  Baltimore Votes Against Eminent Domain

  The Baltimore City Planning Commission voted against the West Covington Urban Renewal Plan by a 7-to-1 vote Thursday night, sending the redevelopment proposal to City Council with the suggestion of eliminating eminent domain from the plan. The commissioners were in agreement that the plan presented a needed redevelopment opportunity for the city, but they couldn’t approve of the plan because it…

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  Oh how we miss the old New York! Or: What does it mean to be nostalgic for something you never knew?

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, gentrification, manhattan, sense of place, jane jacobs, the old new york, nostalgia, authenticity, mary cantwell | 2

  Maybe it was Nathaniel Rich’s recent lament in the New York Times, or the idle chatter in the NAC office, but it seems that lately, the word on everyone’s lips is that they miss the old New York. I’ve been hearing complaints such as “it’s not real anymore,” “everyone’s been pushed out,” and “it’s like a museum.” Apparently, New York (specifically Manhattan) has become a simulacra of itself.

  Sure, I’ve read Mary Cantwell and Jane Jacobs and lament the fact that New York no longer…

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