Gentrification
10.10.2018
The New Urban Crisis: Beyond the Superstar City
Richard Florida’s critical assessment of inequality within and between cities diagnoses the problem, but fails to offer real answers.
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The New Urban Crisis: A Manifesto for the Status Quo
Growing inequality has become a hallmark of many cities. For this reviewer, Richard Florida’s latest book is a worrying prescription for more of the same.
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Reawakening the Spirit of Gezi: Popular Resistance to Istanbul’s ‘Pharaonic’ Projects
Popular protest may have saved Gezi Park, but elsewhere in Turkey the destruction on the environment in pursuit of private profit continues. The Green Though Foundation organised a conference to discuss the challenges posed by these developments and what they say about politics in modern Turkey.
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