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Gentrification

April 2024

  • An illustration in tones of blue, grey and red, of people connected with Birmingham arranged around some of its landmark buildings

    Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

    Austerity-hit Birmingham’s decision to stop funding the arts is a calamity for a city whose rich contribution to UK culture – from Tolkien to the Streets – is such a vital source of civic pride

March 2024

  • Lauren O'Neill

    ‘Neighbourhood restaurants’ – really? These Instagrammable impostors are nothing of the sort

    Lauren O'Neill
  • Erkin Güney, chairman of the Shacklewell Lane mosque in Dalston, east London, outside the mosque

    ‘Our bills have tripled’: UK’s first Turkish mosque fights to survive in London

  • close up of an older woman in a white blouse

    South Carolina woman posthumously wins settlement over Black ancestral land

  • Electric Cinema in Birmingham

    ‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes

February 2024

  • Tenants gather outside the closed Boundary Estate Community Launderette with a banner

    The ‘launderette family’ fighting to save a community space in east London

  • Howard and James Malin, owners of the Notting Hill Bookshop

    Notting Hill: 25 years after the film, what is left of the district’s character?

January 2024

  • boy outside in the sun with a construction scene behind him

    America's dirty divide
    How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’

    A documentary, Razing Liberty Square, examines the plight of families in Liberty City as developers ‘revitalize’ community on desirable higher land

December 2023

  • Phillip Leigh, the Lord of Walthamstow, whose title dates back, possibly, to pre-Norman times.

    No manor, but a peerless investment: Lord of Walthamstow is auctioning his title for £65,000

  • People holding up signs reading 'Stop Displacement'.

    Guns and lies
    Gun violence rate higher in gentrified neighborhoods, study finds

November 2023

  • Aysen Dennis on the balcony of the flat she has moved into

    Campaigner for council housing in London fights on after leaving her home

    Aysen Dennis, who accused Southwark council of ‘social cleansing’, continues court challenge over Aylesbury estate plans

October 2023

  • Past meets present … a first-century Roman amphitheatre near the Luma Foundation arts complex in Arles, France.

    Arles or nothing … can shiny culture bridge a serious French social divide?

  • woman playing guitar in a living room

    Can anyone still make it as a country singer in Nashville?

  • Brownstones on the upper west side

    Honk honk! Can noise cameras reduce ‘potentially fatal’ sound pollution?

  • A performer plays the violin on a tightrope, watched by a crowd in front of a looming building labelled ‘eviction’

    ‘Transience goes with the territory’: Bristol’s The Invisible Circus packs its bags after 20 years

September 2023

  • Three huge cruise ship docked at Galataport

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Loathe Boat: the honking cruise ships ‘ruining’ Istanbul’s port

    Two years after Galataport opened to fanfare as a tourism success story, not everyone is happy about how it has transformed the Turkish coastline

August 2023

  • An affordable housing development is seen as people fish at Kendrick Lake Park in Lakewood, Colo., on Wednesday, July 6, 2023.

    Through the roof
    A Colorado city put a cap on new housing – and proved why it doesn’t work

    The experiences of cities in California and Colorado suggest that growth caps don’t work to make cost of living more affordable – but other mechanisms can

July 2023

  • A street art-styled ad campaign in Shoreditch, London in 2019. Photograph: David Parry/PA

    The Audio Long Read
    How to reduce the damage done by gentrification – podcast

    We cannot let our cities descend into islands of privilege amid seas of disadvantage. With the right policies and investments, a better future is possible
  • Stairs beside an entrance to the metro in Montmartre at night

    ‘Montmartre was dead’: how Paris district has been revived by music

    The 18th arrondissement so beloved of tourists has been transformed by indie record labels and musicians
  • Aerial view of Kenmore village and Kenmore Church of Scotland at Loch Tay in Perthshire, Scotland, Uk<br>2G2DDRW Aerial view of Kenmore village and Kenmore Church of Scotland at Loch Tay in Perthshire, Scotland, Uk

    ‘It’s all for the rich’: anger in Scotland over huge lochside gated community

    No-entry signs are up around the beautiful Taymouth estate as a US developer plans to build luxury homes
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