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Tag Archives: Taigi Smith
I Colonize
Urban gentrification is like global colonization. An advantaged people decide they fancy an area and use their advantages to push into it with, at best, disregard, and at worst, disdain, for the people already living there. The invaders use their might to erase the culture of current residents, and eventually, to erase the residents all together.
I know this, and yet, my feelings about gentrification are ambivalent: a blend of concern and guilt. Yes, guilt. Because I have been an urban colonizer. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Livability, Neighbors, Placemaking, Uncategorized
Tagged Chicago, cohabitation, community, gentrification, housing projects, Michigan Avenue, middle class, Mission District, neighborhoods, property ownership, race, San Francisco, single mothers, Taigi Smith, urban colonization, Utne Reader, What Tami Said, White Flight, working class, yuppies
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