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Carly Berwick | Jan 14th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
Carly Berwick talks hipster hate and liberal snobbery as she examines a recent defense of gentrifiers, and welcomes the yoga-mat-toting masses into her own neighborhood. (
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Willy Staley | Jan 12th, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Willy writes about his—and others’—mixed-up feelings about condominiums in Brooklyn, and how they relate to gentrification, affordable housing, and “authenticity”. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Jul 9th, 2009 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Detroit, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Decades ago suburbs were seen as the anti-cities. Now they’re starting to look like cities — economically at least. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Nov 17th, 2008 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The
Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing.
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Nov 10th, 2008 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Next American City’s first Urban Leaders Fellow, Ben Adler, will be periodically commenting on Washington, D.C. In his first column, he gives a quick tour of the land. (
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Diana Lind | Aug 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
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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Jeffrey Knowles | Jul 15th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Pittsburgh |
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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Diana Lind | Jul 11th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
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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Brendan Crain | Apr 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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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Brendan Crain | Mar 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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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Willy writes about his—and others’—mixed-up feelings about condominiums in Brooklyn, and how they relate to gentrification, affordable housing, and “authenticity”. (keep reading…)
The Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing. (keep reading…)
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? (keep reading…)
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. (keep reading…)
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. (keep reading…)
