et après ça, la ville

Plying from Nought to Nought
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1 | Uploaded on 22 October 2012 | 7 months ago

« The kind of rust you find on the Barclays Center and in the refurbished High Line park is a luxury item. In places like Cleveland and Detroit and the parts of New York without corporate sponsorship, rust is still just rust. »
Tags: gentrification high line nyc it's just cor-ten you guys
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0 | Uploaded on 29 August 2012 | 8 months ago

« Believe it or not, people without millions of dollars also like to drink coffee and have fresh bread (and other kinds of fresh food) within walking distance of their/our apartments. »
Tags: gentrification
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0 | Uploaded on 14 July 2012 | 10 months ago

« Localities have responded by pouring funds into more gentrifiable transit systems at the expense of the city bus — even if ridership on subways and light rails represents a relatively boutique market. »

“Isn’t the bus kind of sketchy?”
Tags: transportation infrastructure gentrification
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1 | Uploaded on 7 July 2012 | 10 months ago

« What you make of it is largely determined by what you think of its underlying subject, which in this case is gentrification. If you are part of the community pushed out by the new wealth gentrification inevitably brings, then no doubt the High Line’s precious attention to symbols of decay and ruin — all those meticulously landscaped weeds — will seem calculated to piss you off. »
Tags: high line public space gentrification
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0 | Uploaded on 24 June 2012 | 11 months ago

« Now there are urban-friendly transportation policies, lavish corporate spending on education and billions in private real estate investment and development. As residents finally get the city they have always deserved, many black Washingtonians are feeling the rage of the loyal first wife, kicked to the curb as soon as things started looking up. »
Tags: gentrification washington urbanism
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1 | Uploaded on 17 April 2012 | 1 year ago

On arrive au cœur du problème.

On arrive au cœur du problème.

Tags: nyc gentrification talkin' bout my generation
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7 | Uploaded on 2 October 2011 | 1 year ago

« The gentrifying classes of New York may claim to prefer the roughness of Brooklyn over the opulence of Manhattan, but that’s easy to say when you can’t afford to live in Manhattan anyway. »
Tags: gentrification nyc urbanisme oh snap
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2 | Uploaded on 24 August 2011 | 1 year ago

« Are we a generation driven by hippie values — minus acid, plus funding and smart phones — that can create sustained change ? Or are we just a group of overprivileged, underexperienced, overconfident Bohemian revivalists that are just trying to defer reality ? He added, You know what I’m saying ? »
Tags: gentrification nyc talkin' bout my generation brooklyn
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4 | Uploaded on 21 August 2011 | 1 year ago

« Zukin declares that she resents everything Starbucks represents, which really means that her urban ideal is the cool neighborhood at the moment before the first Starbucks moves in. »
Tags: gentrification nyc urbanisme
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7 | Uploaded on 18 August 2011 | 1 year ago

« Over the last few years, the ruling class has kept trying to commit suicide — financial crisis, expenses scandal, News International, the Met, financial crisis mark two — and most of us won't let them. We'd rather Keep Calm and Carry On. These kids, venal and stupid as some of their actions obviously are, don't want to carry on. »
Tags: actualité london london riots gentrification
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0 | Uploaded on 2 August 2011 | 1 year ago

« It’s quite another thing to begin splicing together perfectly good neighborhood names in pursuit of ever more bistro-like acronyms. Then again, the acronyms are no more artificial than the names they abbreviate. »
Tags: gentrification urbanisme nyc
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0 | Uploaded on 31 July 2011 | 1 year ago

« The authentic working-class culture of the West Village that Jacobs loved so much is long gone, but people still cling to its urban design and therefore the neighborhood is still in demand. The now-old working class is every bit an object of admiration today as the peasant class was in 1900. »
Tags: urbanisme gentrification