{"id":2779,"date":"2010-06-05T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2010-06-05T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T06:22:56","slug":"gentrification-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/05\/gentrification-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentrification 2.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of my post is semi-serious, semi-ironic. I’m ambivalent about gentrification: if it means unslumming, I figure it’s good; if it means homogenization toward a single class (typically privileged) at the expense of economic diversity, it’s probably not-so-good, right?<\/p>\n

When I write “Gentrification 2.0,” I’m saying that I’m not sure how this particular example – The Woodward’s Project<\/a> in Vancouver – will play out. It’s 2.0 insofar as it’s not unslumming in Jane Jacobs’s sense, nor is it private market gentrification. It’s an interesting hybrid.<\/p>\n

Canada’s National Post<\/a> newspaper has started a series of articles about the Woodward’s Project<\/a>. The reporter is Brian Hutchinson<\/a>, who focuses on the neighborhood (Downtown East Side) and the social implications of putting a spiffy mixed-use high-rise development into its center. This is an unusual development, however: it has “125 fully equipped apartments reserved for low-income singles, and 75 spacious units reserved for families; 80% of the family apartments are rented at below-market rates” (source<\/a>), while at the same time it also boasts market-rate condos valued at over $1million and provides the better-off residents with rooftop luxuries that afford (to use a word Hutchinson used) “bacchanalian” excess.<\/p>\n

I wrote about<\/a> the Woodward’s Project after taking my daughter to lunch in Vancouver for her birthday. It’s a fascinating project, and I’m looking forward to reading the entire series. Hutchinson is “embedded” at Woodward’s for a whole month.<\/p>\n

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