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coalsenats  ·  3382 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gentrification: "We’ve yet to find a better alternative for urban revival."

Great read! I'm a complete layman when it comes to urban planning and city theory, but I have recently become fascinated with the subject after making my way through Richard Register's book Ecocities.

I spent 2011-2013 living in SF, and despite my very small scope of "what's going on" at the time, I noticed a lot of my suburban-raised, poor-but-actually-well-off undergrad peers moving into the rougher neighborhoods like SOMA and Bayview. While I'm sure the lower housing prices had a lot to do with it, these neighborhoods were also gaining popularity from their Bohemian appeal.

If I could go back to that time, I would be interested to hear if the original residents of these neighborhoods shared the sentiment of anti-gentrification presented in this article.