With visitors increasingly interested in the social and political realities of global tourist hot spots, some local guides are adapting their offerings.
Category: Gentrification
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Their Beach Home in the Hamptons Is a Driveway
Tucked among exclusive real estate, a family’s 18-foot-wide strip of land is not just an oceanside parking spot. It’s their legacy.
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Does Bond No. 9’s “Greenpoint” Perfume Smell Like Gentrification?
When luxury condos and artisanal bakeries move into New York City neighborhoods, Bond No. 9 sometimes follows.
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A Bastion of Los Angeles Hippie Culture Survived the Flames
Though landmarks were lost, the tight-knit and storied community of Topanga Canyon counts its blessings.
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A Bastion of Los Angeles Hippie Culture Survived the Flames
Though landmarks were lost, the tight-knit and storied community of Topanga Canyon counts its blessings.
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Sophie Straat Fights Gentrification With Folk Music
Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly expensive and homogenized city.
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Priced Out of Housing, Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands
Across the country, neighborhood groups are uniting to fund mixed-use developments that meet housing and business demands, giving locals a place to live, work and learn new skills.
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Milan Cracks Down on Nightlife After Campaign to Lure Visitors
City officials worked to make Milan attractive to visitors, but now that some neighborhoods are overwhelmed by rowdy crowds and noise, they’re trying to scale back.
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A Slide Show of a Neighborhood, as Some Saw It
A project from Styles charts the stages of gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with photographs of changing store fronts, street corners and performance spaces.
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Williamsburg. What Happened?
A four-decade timeline of total transformation in Brooklyn.
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Miami Has Matured into a Cultural Capital. What Now?
Thirty years ago, the city was barely a blip on the art world’s radar. Now, partly because of Art Basel, it has become a global hot spot. But can it manage its growing pains?