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Showing posts with label gentrification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gentrification. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2019

Attack of the Vertical Suburb

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Recently we've seen a rash of articles that talk about "suburbs in the city," or "suburbanizing the city." Some a...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Who's your Suburb Buddy?

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Adam Hengels had a good post about fighting rising rents back in 2015. He points out that while "gentrification" battles are alm...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Who will save New York City from #SaveNYC?

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A lot of people are alarmed by the language Donald Trump, with its emphasis on “taking back our country” and “making America great again.” ...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Let a thousand Brooklyns bloom

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As I said last year, what many people call "gentrification" in large American coastal cities is the result of the confluence of fo...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

I am Monoculture, Destroyer of Worlds

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There's an idea going around that "gentrification" imposes a monoculture on the neighborhoods it touches. In a whirlwind of de...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

It's time to stop saying "gentrification"

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Gentrification is a bad word, because it blames the wrong people. Don't talk about "gentrification" or "gentrifiers....
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Monday, April 6, 2015

They can't go back to Ohio

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One of the nastiest aspects of NIMBYism in New York City is the scapegoating of people who moved here from somewhere else. For years I'...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

There is no luxury housing

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I've noticed lately that it's become popular to scoff at "luxury housing." The people who scoff tend to do it as proof th...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

What is the challenge of our generation in New York?

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As I wrote a few weeks ago , speaking about the problem of suburban poverty, Chuck Marohn said, "the challenge of our generation is to ...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

Did you bring enough housing for everybody?

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When I was a kid, one of the things the teachers told us was that if you bring snacks or candy, you have to bring enough for everyone. If y...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The light is better on the poor door

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I was listening to Tanya Snyder and Jeff Wood treating the latest “poor door” outrage with some well-deserved skepticism. Jeff mentioned ...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The challenge of our generation

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Rents are rising in cities across the country, and people who can’t afford the new rents have to go somewhere. At CNU 22 in June, Mike Lydo...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri is not a Strong Town

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A lot of people have had a lot of insights about the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. I want to highlight a few that I think are partic...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Could we build another Park Slope?

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Do you like the modern towers of the Upper East Side? Photo: Peter Cigliano / Flickr. How about a nice gigantic Upper West Side prewar a...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Five migrations in gentrification

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In a recent post I noted that the demand driving up rents and prices ("gentrification") in big cities like New York, San Francisc...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Unpacking gentrification

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Transit advocates, pedestrian advocates, urbanists and in general all the people who are trying to improve the quality of life in cities nee...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cheap housing with els

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Two years ago I wrote that for truly affordable housing we not only do we need an adequate supply of living space, as Matt Yglesias explain...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Inequality: disease or symptom?

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Do you want to see real inequality? Do you want to see well-fed people, satisfied smiles on their faces, walking past lines of hungry peopl...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

In 2013, subways raise property values

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Suppose that you live in a detached single-family home a block from the old Brooklyn Manor train station in Woodhaven. Your neighbors are s...
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