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Whats Wrong With Gentrification? The displacement myth. (NYMag)

Source: ignantwitted.com

Added by: bridgetl  2 years ago

Description: At least there was one upside to the downturn: It brought gentrification to a thudding halt. Because gentrification, as we all know, is a dirty word, and one that never tastes more sour than in the mouths of the people who practice it. n+1, the literary journal of the Brooklyn renaissance, headquartered in the rigorously revitalized Dumbo, just published two tut-tutting pieces on the subject: a book review titled “Gentrified Fiction” (en garde, Jonathan Lethem!) and an essay, “Gentrify, Gentrify,” which decries the annexation of Brooklyn into “Ikea-hoods” and calls on gentrifiers to (somehow) “ally with the displaced.” Read more: Whats Wrong With Gentrification? -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/62675/#ixzz0Zb3lGrT2