Glenn wrote:
There is a very interesting letter in this week's UC
Review. Mitchell. Gordon responds to Paul Levy's letter
of last week and follows-up on his original opinion piece
about moderately priced housing. In this letter, Gordon
touches on the problems the rapid gentrification causes
for the young creative class that is the proclaimed focus
of Penn's marketing scheme for Philadelphia. He also
cites Daniel Brook's book, The Trap, Selling Out to Stay
Afloat In Winner-Take-All America.
brook writes: "The pace of gentrification has accelerated to
the point where bohemian communities can no longer take root
in major cities like new york. the greenwich village bohemia
lasted for decades, soho for ten years, the east village for
five, williamsburg for two. the game is over.... the rising
cost of living in major cities snuffs out the forms of
noncommercial intellectual creativity for which our most
cosmopolitan metropolises have long been known."
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and perhaps it's not just the 'noncommercial' intellectual
creativity being snuffed out.
there is an interesting, ironic detail in the gazette
article about laurie olin, penn's renowned landscape
architect who transforms spaces so that 'where once was
abandonment, there is now vigor and gentrification' -- we
learn just how he got his start, back in 1976:
"we scrambled around and we found some space over a
bar next to a strip club opposite the old Greyhound
station on Market Street."
That seedy block soon became one end of a pipeline fed by
Penn's Department of Landscape Architecture. Dennis
McGlade GLA'69, Lucinda Sanders GLA'89, and Susan Weiler
GLA'83 joined the firm in its first decade.... Along with
Robert Bedell and David Rubin, they form the leadership
of a firm that has made Olin the landscape designer of
choice by some of the best architects in the world.
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