GENTRIFICATION
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Black at Home in the Bay Area
Wendy M. Thompson
Living in a black place mattered to me, the granddaughter of black southern migrants who had left homes in Louisiana to make new homes out west. Mo…
I Am a Tool of Gentrification: An Experimental Documentary Series
Lyubov Matyunina
Lyubov’s work is inspired, often indirectly, by her personal life or everyday life events. As she tells us “in the case of I am a tool of Gentr…
– Jonna Tolonen"/>
Turning into guirilandia: Experiencing gentrification in Valencia, Spain
– Jonna Tolonen
It is the sixth consecutive day that I am photographing here. After so many long hours of shooting, the neighbourhood finally starts to feel famili…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr "/>
Tourism in transformation: from a hectic urban environment to urban resilience in Barcelona
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr
The tourism industry has been growing worldwide since the first decades of the 20th century (Sezgin & Yolal, 2012), but particularly over the past …
with Sito Veracruz, co-founder of Fairbnb"/>
Fairbnb’s model for community-led tourism
with Sito Veracruz, co-founder of Fairbnb
Two prominent factors motivated me. Firstly, I am an urban planner, a “classic” urban planner from the Spanish perspective, because I graduate…
– Rab Harling"/>
Balfron Tower: the artwash of an icon
– Rab Harling
It was with great excitement and optimism when in late 2010, at the cusp of attaining my MA in Photography from the London College of Communication…
– Isabella Rossen"/>
Olympic gentrification? Hackney Wick, London: from petrol refining to showcasing arts
– Isabella Rossen
The past few years, Hackney Wick has transformed from a peripheral derelict industrial area into a new creative urban centre. Located on the fringe…
– Anna Attademo"/>
The meaning of limits in a limitless city
– Anna Attademo
Contemporary cities grow in space and time, every day struggling competitively against others, crossing spatial and conceptual limits: in the conte…
– Rab Harling"/>
A delicate sense of terror
– Rab Harling
Between February 2011 & February 2014, I was a resident of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist icon Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets. Throughout this period,…
The Westway: four decades of community activism
– CivicWise
A walk along the Westway, the largest elevated urban highway in Europe, located is West London. The area below and around the Westway has witne…