Gentrification
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Iris Canada’s fight to stay in the home she had lived in for more than 50 years became a symbol of the city’s housing crisis
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This ingenious debut about underachieving millennials is a dystopia in a velvet glove
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A government-driven revitalisation project is turning public housing – including the waterfront Sirius building with its 90-year-old hold-out resident – into private developments. It is seen by some as ‘aggressive social cleansing’
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How do you improve a neighbourhood without causing land prices to rise? Residents along a polluted waterway in San Juan set up a community land trust to help save their homes, as well as the environment
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Community land trusts battle gentrification by linking house prices to local wages rather than the market rate. But can this growing movement for ‘permanently affordable’ homes really ease Britain’s housing crisis?
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Right-to-buy program helps tenants stay put or receive higher payouts when building owners want to sell, undermining idea gentrification is ‘natural’ process
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From post-Olympics Rio de Janeiro to unaffordable London, we hear from architects, activists and writers on how their cities should change in the next year
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There are two very different views about the redevelopment of one of London’s most famous creative clusters
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Reducing a complex outcome of the capital’s successes to all bad or all good doesn’t help us deal with it effectively
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Rotterdam's anti-gentrification movement must learn the lessons of its failed referendum
Brian Doucet, Marguerite van den Berg, Gwen van EijkThe Netherlands’ second city is increasingly divided on plans to replace affordable homes with more expensive properties
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Graphic designer Herwig Scherabon visualises the data behind gentrification using a striking array of different styles. These examples look at the patterns of income inequality and segregation in large cities, from London to LA
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A bling soft play centre, an OAP brewery business, a socialist Jack and the Beanstalk … Dagenham’s residents are waking up to the possibilities of art in a great suburb-wide experiment
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Fatahillah Square was once a bustling hub of culture and nightlife. Now street vendors are forcibly removed, and hundreds of homes have been demolished in order to build corporate plazas. Has the area lost its soul?
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A controversial law limiting new restaurant openings in Montreal’s Saint-Henri area has pitted business owners against those who believe they are fighting for the very survival of Canada’s ‘culture capital’. Who is right?
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Much rage against change that makes neighbourhoods more posh is contradictory and misses the point
How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisions