What ultimately separates my living situation from those of the characters onSesame Streetis its impermanence. Television shows are often accused of simplifying life, creating problems that will all be solved within a half-hour or hour. But the beauty ofSesameStreetis its permanence, even in the ...
Even the hottest waves of gentrification the city has ever seen are no match for the iconic el train. JJ trains at the 168th St terminal in Jamaica. 1977. Doug Grotjahn/Joe Testagrose via nycsubway.org Work on Archer Ave continued slowly and in 1977 the Jamaica Ave El was cut b...
The writers analyzed the Markthal to be a symbol of unwanted gentrification and called Markthal an “historical clusterfuck of gentrification, segregation and neoliberalism.” The article was initially published in the smaller newspaper NRC Next but made it into the edition of NRC Handelsblad, a...
Some of that can get solved with better zoning and transit and tort/insurance reform and tax reform and road design and parking minimums and city-planning and so on. But not all of it, so long as people continue to want big houses with big yards and 2 toilets per person. We definitely...