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Re: Gentrification

Postby seanrichardryan » June 26th, 2014, 9:55 pm

Yes, how is the Copper Hen Cakery? And the fancy gift shop next door?
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Re: Gentrification

Postby mattaudio » June 27th, 2014, 7:55 am

Why don't folks want cake shops and fancy gift shops? Not my thing, mind you, but what's bad about having them as neighbors?

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Re: Gentrification

Postby MNdible » June 27th, 2014, 8:59 am

Cake shops are not authentically urban, see?

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Re: Gentrification

Postby EOst » June 27th, 2014, 10:11 am

I don't think anyone hate cake shops, they're just more the sort of thing you'd expect at 50th and France than Nicollet and 25th.

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Re: Gentrification

Postby talindsay » June 27th, 2014, 8:22 pm

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.

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Re: Gentrification

Postby EOst » June 27th, 2014, 8:31 pm

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.
Excellent straw man.

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Re: Gentrification

Postby talindsay » June 28th, 2014, 11:54 am

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.
Excellent straw man.
Kidding aside, I live near turtle bread and can't imagine why somebody would object to a bakery of any type!

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Re: Gentrification

Postby EOst » June 29th, 2014, 8:44 am

Honestly, if we're just going by smells outside I say every building should be a bakery. ;)

I think people are just worried that when Nicollet continues to improve, a lot of the restaurants they like will be pushed out to somewhere else. I don't want everything to stay the same forever (far from it really), but as someone with a fairly low income it's depressing to watch; Uptown is already too expensive for me to eat or drink at more than once in a blue moon.

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Re: Gentrification

Postby mplsjaromir » June 30th, 2014, 8:36 am

An interesting article about gentrification.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/gent ... arbitrage/

Astute observations about the perception of crime, which one would think be applicable to school quality.

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Re: Gentrification

Postby Nathan » October 7th, 2014, 7:07 pm

Case Closed. Gentrification and Hipsters are good for neighborhoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjAZ6utVFY

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Re: Gentrification

Postby Anondson » October 18th, 2014, 9:36 pm

Couple links on the "G" word.

"Is Urban Revitalization Without Gentrification Possible?"
http://dirt.asla.org/2014/09/26/is-urba ... -possible/

"OK, Gentrification Is Lousy. Now What?" (A rebuttal to the jacobin article?)
http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/ok-gentr ... -now-what/

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Re: Gentrification

Postby Nick » December 8th, 2014, 5:44 pm

http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/the-trail ... e-universe

Not exactly gentrification the way most people would describe it, but a good read.
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Re: Gentrification

Postby Elliot Altbaum » December 8th, 2014, 6:06 pm

Fascinating national metro region study of long term trends in urban poverty. Echos Orfield's work that poverty concentration is a larger problem than poverty displacement. The website has really great maps for those who don't like to read.
http://cityobservatory.org/lost-in-place/

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Re: Gentrification

Postby twincitizen » December 22nd, 2014, 10:39 am

MinnPost shares the above data for MSP, with a solid headline: http://www.minnpost.com/data/2014/12/ma ... es-worries

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Re: Gentrification

Postby xandrex » December 22nd, 2014, 10:57 am

^Very interesting. I have to assume a lot of SE Minneapolis' increased poverty has to do with the influx of students concentrating into the Dinkytown area and their continued spread into Como and the western parts of Marcy Holmes?

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Re: Gentrification

Postby EOst » December 22nd, 2014, 1:19 pm

I suspect a lot of the increases in poverty are. The areas along the 2 in Ventura Village and Seward have a lot of students too.

Some of them are a little strange to me, though. Loring Park? Whittier? Some of that is probably from MCAD students, but I can't imagine that's all of it.

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Re: Gentrification

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Re: Gentrification

Postby Realstreets » January 22nd, 2015, 8:52 am

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... eople.html

"The Myth of Gentrification - It’s extremely rare and not as bad for the poor as you think."

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Re: Gentrification

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Re: Gentrification

Postby xandrex » February 10th, 2015, 9:08 am

This kind of fits in here, but it's kind of ambiguous, so mods please move wherever.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015 ... office.php

The "Whose Diversity?" takeover of U of M President Kaler's office included multiple demands, including one that seems a little odd:

-Halting all luxury apartment developments near the university
...along with...
-Building more affordable housing closer to the center of campus

They seem to be making (more or less) a gentrification argument here, but I think they fail to grasp how private property works. You can't tell Doran or whoever to just stop building because you don't like it.

The affordable piece is laudable, but something tells me their demands are some loftier version of the University strong-arming developers into artificially lowering rents.

I dunno. Demands like this just kinda strike the wrong chord (but, of course, they're populist demands).


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