That was an unwanted byproduct of renovation of older urban areas. Some city authorities have mixed-income requirements to combat this (official term 'gentrification').
Jane Jacobs addressed this problem in 1961. She termed this "the self-destruction of success," and proposed concrete ways to counteract it. Her book is still worth reading!! We haven't yet adopted even a fraction of what it has to teach us.
By the way, her most obvious suggestion was to create many thousands of great neighborhoods, so we wouldn't be trampling each other to buy into the only good ones.
Supply and demand. Rich yppies move their because they are the best neighbourhoods and they cost so much because there are almost none of them. If you want those to become aviable then allow for more of them.
If Moses hadn't destroyed neighbourhoods there wouldn't have been such high demand on a relatively small area. A century later, we finally realised what makes us happy in the city, but only a small number of us can afford it, not due its grandiosity but due it's rarity.
I adore Jane Jacobs, I have so much to learn from her .... an incredible woman !!
My hero. Jane is my inspiration to make my own neighborhood better.
Great Video! Simple and helpful.
Beautimous (in the sense of the word before the sense of the word "awesome" applied to pizza)
These so-called accessible neighbourhoods are just yuppy heavens. Most people who want to live close to where they work can't actually afford them.
That was an unwanted byproduct of renovation of older urban areas. Some city authorities have mixed-income requirements to combat this (official term 'gentrification').
Jane Jacobs addressed this problem in 1961. She termed this "the self-destruction of success," and proposed concrete ways to counteract it. Her book is still worth reading!! We haven't yet adopted even a fraction of what it has to teach us.
By the way, her most obvious suggestion was to create many thousands of great neighborhoods, so we wouldn't be trampling each other to buy into the only good ones.
Supply and demand. Rich yppies move their because they are the best neighbourhoods and they cost so much because there are almost none of them. If you want those to become aviable then allow for more of them.
If Moses hadn't destroyed neighbourhoods there wouldn't have been such high demand on a relatively small area. A century later, we finally realised what makes us happy in the city, but only a small number of us can afford it, not due its grandiosity but due it's rarity.