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• in Politics
  Civil Sidewalks vs. Civil Rights
  Is the new “sit-lie” law a gross violation of liberty or a long overdue effort to encourage a safe urban environment?
  by docentman / on Dec 20, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gentrification”

 

• In Brooklyn, Rap’s Mean Streets, Remixed

  
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  The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.        
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• Brooklyn, the Remix: A Hip-Hop Tour

  
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  A mural of the Notorious B.I.G. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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• Tunnel Vision: Cypress Park Pedestrian Tunnel Becoming Underground Gallery

  
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  The LA2050 competition recently awarded 10 winners $100,000 to help remake their neighborhood. One of the many deserving applicants who sadly didnt take home a prize was Yancey Quinones, a Cypress Park local and current owner of the Antigua Coffee House on Figueroa and Loreta. Quinones managed to make much of his ...
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• Greenpoint Photo Du Jour: Keep Calm

  
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  How do you know when your community is in the throes of a Gordon Gekkoesque real estate feeding frenzy? When you see shit like this. That’s how.
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• Gentrification in “My Brooklyn” and the Downtown Eastside

  
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  By Gena Thompson On Monday May 6, Carnegie Community Centre Association president Gena Thompson spoke following the screening of a new documentary, “My Brooklyn” at the Doxa documentary film festival. “My Brooklyn” shows how a planning process and major rezoning … Continue reading →
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• GentrificationWatch: Brace: Whole Foods is Moving Into Silver Lake Ralphs Space

  
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  It has arrived: Silver Lakes gentrification singularity. Whole Foods is moving into the Ralphs site at Glendale near Fletcher (in not the prettiest section of SL). Theres been renovation/redevelopment gossip swirling around the site for a while now--Ralphs claimed it was just updating its store as several of the ...
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• A Small But Significant We

  
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  Continuing my project of rereading all her works, I just finished Marge Piercys eighth novel, Fly Away Home (Summit Books, 1984). When I was following these books as they were published, I thought that her novels alternated between so-so and brilliant.  Im not so sure about that now.  Perhaps because Ive become ...
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• Quicklink: Community Meeting Notes Regarding Greenpoint Landing & 77 Commercial Street

  
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  Yours truly opted not to attend this convocation (one can only stomach so much of this stuff— seriously). However a writer at Greenpointers , Peter, has authored an excellent summary . Do take a moment to give it a read!
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• Honey, it keeps coming – check out this gorgeous review in Bookslut!!!

  
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  Such beautiful description and analysis and intimacy and recognition and expression , what a joy to read!!!!
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• Tearing down buildings and people in a small Southern city

  
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  At 8:15 AM March 20, 2013, I snapped an iPhone photo of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., and posted it to my Google Plus profile along with a brief caption. Less than an hour later and 540 miles away, a woman I’ll call Mary Barth composed a tweet in her Decatur, Ga., home and sent it using an ...
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• A walk in and out of G-town.

  
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  Today I was interviewed for the Gastown Gazette . They are that lovely hyperlocal rag that has been doing some great journalism around the anti-gentrification folks in our hood . You know, those folks that protest The Pigeon Restaurant, and wander though Gastown with hoods and torches…Yup I said hoods & ...
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• On Broadway: See Broadways 1917 Rialto Theatre Pre-Urban Outfitters Rehab

  
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  Yesterday it was revealed that huge national retailer Urban Outfitters will be selling its mass-produced hipster fare out of Broadways historic Rialto Theatre come the end of 2013 (another big coup for the rapidly-fancifying street)--the chain will restore the theaters marquee (the "longest existing historic ...
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• Giants Like New York or San Francisco

  
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  Dude was standing alone against the world …but said he suddenly felt like a giant.. from New York?  or like  Tim Lincecum from San Francisco? Standing alone against the world!! he said he was making bread on the stock market .. like Sara Lee or Nabisco ! …in a zone;  all up in the disco inferno!! ...
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• GentrificationWatch: Exclusive: Urban Outfitters Rehabbing DTLAs Rialto Theatre

  
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  The rumors of an Urban Outfitters moving into the historic Rialto Theatre on Broadway have been revealed to be true--the retailer confirms to Curbed that a lease has been signed. The Philly-based chain plans to restore the "longest existing historic marquee in Los Angeles, while rebuilding and adapting the ...
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• What if we had a social justice zone in the heart of our community? Town hall, Monday May 20

  
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  CCAP town hall meeting WHAT IF WE HAD A SOCIAL JUSTICE ZONE IN THE HEART OF OUR COMMUNITY? Monday May 20 1pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St on the main floor City Hall’s planning process to draft a plan for … Continue reading →
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• What’s happening to our housing in the DTES? Town hall Thursday May 9

  
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  CCAP town hall meeting WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE? Thursday May 9 3pm Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St on the main floor On Thursday May 9th, come join us for a community town hall based on … Continue reading →
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• A wonderful conversation about The End of San Francisco on the BOMBblog...

  
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  Here it is...
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• One city, many voices

  
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  The so-called  "Second Battle of New Orleans" fight to defeat the riverfront expressway has passed into mythology. It has become a fable with two distinct morals depending on who is telling the story. For preservationists, it is their finest hour; their most unambiguous victory over the most demonstrably evil (in ...
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• Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe

  
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  by Andrea Colantonio and Tim DixonPrevious research on sustainability has been mainly limited to environmental and economic concerns. However in recent years social sustainability has gained increased recognition as a fundamental component of sustainable development, beginning to receive political and institutional ...
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• A delightful interview on KALWs Out in the Bay!!!

  
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  Check it out here ...
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