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What the "ripple" eventually results in is a thriving (i.e. heavily invested in) urban core connected to affluent outer ring suburbs (see: edge cities) by highways etc bypassing an inner ring of disinvested urban fringe and inner suburbs. All the problems of urban decline are simply pushed...

And obviously it's a more complicated, less uniform process than a 1-for-1 more affluent person, less affluent person out. There are always winners and losers - or rather, a spectrum of outcomes - in any economic process. "I wish my neighborhood could be gentrified" is the kind of thing you...

I do think all the Rene Girard scapegoat stuff is basically empreror's new clothes bullshit that its advocates treat as a holy grail for explaining basically anything and everything, but that's separate from addressing gentrification and displacement

Obviously blaming individuals isn't really helpful in addressing systemic issues. I think I was already quite clear about that. The actual practices of developers are often corrupt and and disgusting - look up the scam that is Tax Increment Funding here in Chicago for but one example of deeply...

Mike Davis feels very relevant here, as well as Joel Garreau's edge city concept

I can't speak as well to cities in other countries tho my understanding is that in many places the inner suburbs were always the grim rundown etc (as they are have been becoming here for decades) i.e. the banlieues of Paris. There was less of a need for "revitalization" bc capital never...

The difference is that none of those people were displacing large pre-existing communities of non-art types. They were just displacing each other in the niche of art types, if anything. Again tho, it's a mistake to focus on the people seeking housing in cool neighborhoods. Early downtown NY...

Capital essentially abandoned urban cores for a while then decided "no we want that back after all". It makes sense - urban centers are immensely valuable real estate. The 60-70s urban decline was the bizarre anomaly, and it coincides with deindustrialization. In other words, basically the...

Also tbc, some urban revitalization is good. The ideal would be to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods without pricing out their inhabitants. I'm not claiming to know how to do that, tho I'm sure smart people somewhere have some ideas.

I disagree that the conversation is overloaded toward housing, bc who lives in a place very largely determines what kind of investment it will receive, what kinds of goods, services, and entertainment will be available to its residents, the quality of its public schools (which is largely...

Let me clarify: @linebaugh is correct, the (mostly white) people moving into these neighborhoods are symptom, not cause. I myself have participated repeatedly in stages 1 and 2. It isn't reasonable to expect people not to want to move to big cities for all the reasons that young people have...

Tldr: fuck cool neighborhoods

It would be amusing in its regularity were it not for yunno the general wholesale displacement of pre-gentrification communities Pilsen, Logan Square, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, Humboldt Park, Avondale, to name a few The demographic story of the last 30 years in Chicago is basically the...

The basic gentrification progression Fringy (mostly) white people - punks etc Artsy (mostly) white people Kool yuppies i.e. graphic designers etc Regular yuppies If it's a "neighborhood" next to an urban center/financial center i.e. Soho or the West Loop here in Chicago there's an eventual 5th...

It's the exact time 3-5 (or more like 5-10) years before is more like when the savvier/more capitalized folks buy property in said neighborhood

That's more like what Avondale was 5-10 years ago

winter, and 200 bpm happy hardcore with the vocals pitched up so high they instantly shatter both glass and eardrums to dust

winter is coming Rich that's the north

I thought the entire northern reputation was being for, as you all would say, well hard going back to the Viking Era and all thru history. endless border wars with Scotland. post-industrial towns. happy hardcore.

didn't that guy wrote that series of it's grim up north crime novels, but serious literature crime novels. they're set in Yorkshire, that got made into a decent series of British televised films I distinctly remember a line where a guy says "this is north and we do what we like"