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Gentrification follies
İstanbul :: Turkey | 3 days ago
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Gentrification Follies Politicians are turning Istanbul's year as European Cultural Capital 2010 into a program for promoting real estate and tourism. Ten days before President Obama's visit to Istanbul at the beginning of the month, a different kind...
Tags: Istanbul Biennial, european cultural, Bilgi University, cultural capital, Iran, AKP, European Commission, cultural policy, cultural centre, Black/North SEAS, Turkey, İstanbul, Beyoￄﾟlu, Taksim Square, Gentrification, Kurdish people, Cities along the Silk Road
Paris: City of Lights or lights out?
Paris :: IL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Paris, whose wild nightlife drew generations of party goers from Ernest Hemingway to Jim Morrison, is now more notorious for curfews than carousing. Dismayed nightcrawlers say swelling red tape, nightclub closures, gentrification and po-faced disapproval...
Tags: Paris-Paris, Parisian, Paris, Nightclub, Nightlife, Gentrification, Hospitality Recreation, 13th arrondissement of Paris, Le Batofar, Lightships
Olympic Games driving out poorer residents as property prices rise, says study
East London :: South Africa | 5 days ago
Credibility A study of properties sold in the five Olympic boroughs found that those within a three-mile radius of the stadium rose in value by 5 per cent after London was awarded the Olympics in July 2005. Across the five boroughs, some of the most socially deprived...
Tags: property priced, London East Research Institute, East London, affordable housing, London Citizens, poorer residents, South Africa, Priced Out, Gentrification, London
Worst house building slump since WW II
Brisbane :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The HIA's National Outlook report reveals this year marks the seventh straight year of weakness in housing starts. Its chief economist, Harley Dale, says residential building is being crippled by bottlenecks. "A lack of skilled labour available to the...
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Real estate pricing, Sydney, Affordable housing, Public housing, Business Finance, Real estate, Property, Renting, Gentrification, Toorak Victoria
Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the Inner City
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Frank, a think tank lackey, has a solution to America's housing problem: Ship all the poor black and Hispanic people to abandoned McMansions. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks: You would think during a time...
Tags: T.A. Frank, Frank and Associates, public housing, Yasha Levine, poor black, free market, Los Angeles, Urban economics, Gentrification, Urban geography, Unemployment, Affordable housing, Urban decay, Sociology, Social Issues
The New NIMBYs [Urban Anthropology]
New York :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Seedy neighborhood+Gentrification= Only a faint romantic halo of former seediness, which is used for real estate marketing purposes. Any attempt at neighborhood reversion to pre-gentrification standards will be terminated with extreme affluence.
Tags: New York, Gentrification, Neighborhoods in Louisville Kentucky, Butchertown Louisville, Halo
Unidad Campaign Returns the "Public" to Public Meeting
Tonight the City of Los Angeles held a scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Report on the South L.A. and Southeast L.A. Community Plan. Exciting, right? You’re on the edge of your seats…Usually there are a handful of people at these...
Tags: planning, Los Angeles, South Los Angeles Community Plan, South East Los Angeles Community Plan, development, gentrification, public meeting, organizing, testimony, racism, poverty, slums
Write to the City
Write to the City was a pretty amazing event that took place in downtown L.A. last Thursday, it brought together writers like Luis Rodriguez, Sara Paretsky, and Denise Hamilton with folks that work in the community to trade stories about gentrification...
Tags: gentrification, los angeles, noir, mystery, activism, organizing
A people with a land
As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations
Tags: land, Palestine, tel aviv, jaffa, settlement, occupation, israeli, occupied territories, intifada, gentrification, demolition, ethnic cleansing, popular committee
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