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Monday, December 11, 2006

Buzz word Getrifacation


Getrifacation

You can see this in action in the perl district most recently. Side effect include:
1.)Starbucks on every street corner
2.)Outflux of mom-pop stores
3.)Outflux of poor residents
4.)Influx of rich residents
5.)loss of historical neiborhood

A urban planning prof. told me that something similar happened when PSU was built. Waay back when that used to be a very tight knit community of largely jewish people. Now it is full of high rises, oh and they didn't like tanner creek so they put it in a pipe so sw portland wouldn't have to look at it anymore.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah I'm so sick of gentrification; it's a sign that we are over-populated. I keep waiting for a super virus to wipe half of us out but it still hasn't happened yet.

-Theresa

Tuesday, 12 December, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i love this theresa character.

you are preaching to the choir about this issue friend.

Tuesday, 12 December, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, that super-virus would finish the work gentrification started: getting rid of the poor people. How about hoping for a collapse of the dollar?

Wednesday, 13 December, 2006  

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