Artists, on the other hand, are a hot commodity, with special artist housing and art spaces cropping up as part of many places’ revitalization plans.
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Gentrification, urban displacement and affordable housing: Overview and research roundu... - 1 views
Cultural Hijack - 0 views
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Cultural Hijack presents a survey of provocative interventions which have inserted themselves into the world, demanding our attention, interrupting everyday life, hijacking, trespassing, agitating and teasing. Often unannounced and usually anonymous, these works have appropriated media channels, hacked into live TV and radio broadcasts, detourned billboards, re-appropriated street furniture, subverted signs, monuments and civic architectures, exposed corporations and tax loopholes, and revealed the absurdities of bureaucratic behaviours.
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Calls to turbo-charge local government reform - 0 views
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Proposed "Joint Organisations" of councils should be expanded and made mandatory, the chief executive of Urban Taskforce NSW, Chris Johnson, has said. Revitalising Local Government, an independent report to the state government made public last week, recommends Sydney's 41 councils be reduced to 18, primarily through amalgamating small inner-city councils.
6 star dreams and industrial wasted-land | Urban Design Blog on WordPress.com - 0 views
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The concepts of 'central business districts' and 'industrial' 'employment areas' should be questioned for two reasons. The possible effects of the NBN and ICT more broadly on spatial decision-making has generally been overlooked. Secondly, the exclusion of residential from these CBD areas, and commercial and residential from centrally located 'industrial areas' can be seen as...
Gentrification doesn't trickle down to help everyone | David Madden - 0 views
Dorchester Projects - 1 views
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Venezuela Architecture for social engagement
What Happens Once the Artists Arrive? -- Rooflines - 1 views
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First, we have to ask who are the artists transforming an area for? And at whose direction?
First It Was The Artists: The Myth Of "Nice" Gentrification In Art | Chicago Literati - 0 views
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“Artists have the capacity, when we gather, to do what nobody else in the world can do. We can make out of a series of nothings, a series of abandoned buildings… things that people would discard. Artists have a way of connecting belief and ability and a willing to work at a thing longer than mosts would and create heat… wherever there’s heat, people want to be around it, and what we found is that people wanted to be wherever artists work. If artists could manage some of the cultural capital that we had, artists could be the real transformers of communities.”
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VIA Clover Moore's Facebook Page Development projects for community consultation in Green Square.