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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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  Sex, Coffee and Seattle

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 27th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: news, seattle, evan miller, the new argument, money, police, video, florida, laws, protests, employment, starbucks, coffee, friday, caffeine, oregon | 1

  It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. 

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  Consumptive Diversity: Or, why we should rebel. Loudly.

  Hayley Richardson | Sat, Nov 10th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, starbucks, bryant simon, west philly, green line cafe, consumptive diversity, manayunk, white privelege | 3

  That Starbucks has emerged as the 21st century simulacra of a public sphere is an exhaustively imagined subject. The same goes for their notorious ability to wreak havoc on local economies, and their contribution to the “generification” of landscapes nationwide.

  Which is why Temple University history professor Bryant Simon decided to approach the coffee behemoth from a different angle when writing his just-published book, Learning from Starbucks; or, Making the World Safe for a…

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