Germany’s Gentrification: Should North America Take Note? (Leipzig)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Germany understands gentrification, and it could teach North America a few tricks on how to gentrify sustainably. After the collapse of the Berlin wall many cities in the former East Germany had to gentrify in order to keep their cities from falling into disrepair. In other words, they needed to attract wealthier people to poorer cities. Leipzig, a city 2 hours south of Berlin, has been praised for its successful rebuild over the last 20-30 years.
We dive deep into how Leipzig found itself in need of massive change and what it did to gentrify without massive negative impacts. In addition, we take the lessons that Leipzig learned and break down how North American cities could use these lessons to gentrify their cities without the displacement, price increases, and homelessness typically associated with gentrification.
Leipzig's graffiti alley and surrounding neighbourhood of Plagwitz are great examples of a uniquely gentrified city. A neighbourhood fill with graffiti, street art, music and more.
Hopefully the lessons Leipzig has to offer can help change gentrification from a negative to a positive!
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I'm Zac, a Canadian who grew up in the golden horseshoe of Ontario, Canada. I moved to Ottawa, Ontario when I was 22 and now I'm travelling the world one alley way at a time!
This was an extremely challenging video to put together because it’s hard to gauge success. Not to mention, gentrification leads to some level of negative impact, regardless of how well it’s done, I’m not saying Leipzig is perfect or didn’t make mistakes. However, I did the best research I could and in my opinion, there’s a lot to be learned from this city.
respect that u get such a good understanding of the city in just a month !
I really enjoyed this video. I was thinking; he is a really good story teller while I was watching. I went to Berlin briefly last month. I am planning to go back to Germany one day and hopefully spend a month. I definitely will spend some time in Leipzig now! Thanks for the insight.
That’s good to hear, it’s really hard to know where I’m at with some videos, thanks for the feedback! :)
You are a great storyteller. Keep it up 👍🏽
Great story telling! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a tricky one to tell!
If u get alg2 the rents are actually to high unless u wanne live in a shoe box
But thsts more becouse the lazy butts who decide how much rent would be suitsble just cslculated to little city parts like eisbahnstraße or grünau really drsged the quer cut down and noone considered this
hey - cool video! people say 'Leipzig is the new Berlin' . its a conservative city breaking into more 'multikulti' ecosystem but still long way to go
It’s a unique city, the New Berlin thing I get but definitely more affordable, people are a little more approachable here too, glad you liked the video 😃