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| Topic | What is wrong with gentrification? |
| pinky0926 04/07/17 7:29:10 PM #33: | Nomadic View posted... pinky0926 posted...Because those poor people don't get a better quality of life, they just find it harder to exist anywhere and end up getting displaced. And then the entire soul of a place and the reason it was gentrified in the first place can disappear. Not every instance of "gentrification" is about destroying slums and making it a nice neighbourhood. A well known town near me had the entire high street die in favour of a Tesco's and Next store. We're talking every shop on the high street closing up in a year because the UK equivalent of Walmart steamrolled the entire thing. Two stores, that's all it took. But on paper, that town is now doing more commerce, even though it's not even a town anymore but little more than an industrial parking lot. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z316/CeliaOfTheSky/Pinky0926.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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