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What is your images of "hypergentrification" My experience with any gentrification is a place with almost nothing interesting to do or see gets renewed with ne
by gfxgirl 6y ago
What is your images of "hypergentrification"
My experience with any gentrification is a place with almost nothing interesting to do or see gets renewed with new restaurants, bar, venues, etc... so a place that was boring with nothing to do suddenly has new an interesting things to do. Attracting new business brings in other things too like festivals, farmers markets, etc..
That's hardly "... tends to have a sterilizing effect on city life" but maybe you have a different experience.
- whytaka 6y agoI think the critique is simply the homogeneity of the people; mostly in terms of temperament. People with stable jobs, working hard, doing white collar things. Having white collar interests. 401Ks, keeping up with the Joneses, what rate did you get for your mortgage as dinner conversation and all that. It's really not as colourful as the melange of labourers and aspiring artists in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods with historical communities. These are gross caricatures, but my impression is that's why people don't like gentrification.