Topic: Gentrification
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Maps
Mapping Brooklyn's Spiky Gentrification
Property values have soared in some neighborhoods. But other parts of the borough have been largely excluded from the boom.
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The Big Fix
How Black Gentrifiers Have Affected the Perception of Chicago's Changing Neighborhoods
Two Chicago communities with similar stories see vastly different outcomes.
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Urban Wonk
Housing Shortage in Paris? Blame the Foreigners!
At least that's the popular attitude. But the truth is much more complicated.
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Photos
A Second Life for Detroit's Most Popular Garage
The Vinsetta is transformed into a restaurant.
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Urban Wonk
The Lifecycle of a 'Cool' Neighborhood
How a neighborhood evolves from the next big thing to over the hill.
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The Big Fix
Berlin's Invisible Gentrifiers
The city's properties are being sucked up by out-of-towners who visit only a few weeks a year, turning neighborhoods into ghost towns.
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The Trendification of Brooklyn and the Perils of a Successful Urban Brand
Now that USA Today has written about it, surely it's time to go back to being uncool again. I can hardly wait.
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Urban Wonk
Facts and Fictions of D.C.'s Gentrification
Urban comebacks like the District of Columbia's can come at a price. This past week showed how sore a subject this still is.
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How Street Art Is Changing a Miami Neighborhood
Is Wynwood a place where Miami’s creative minds come to hang out and work or "where art goes to die"?
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Urban Wonk
How the Recession Made Me a Gentrifier in My Home Town
Downwardly mobile Millennials—especially the ones who are natives of increasingly expensive cities—are rewriting the rules of gentrification.
