Gentrification

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To disguise a neighbor's less-than-pristine house, she planted a hedge on the other person's land!
By Cary Tennis Mar 27, 2008

  • The strangers next door

    A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.
    By Laura Miller November 12, 2007

  • Band on the run in New Orleans

    Police have cracked down on funeral processions, a time-honored cultural tradition in the historic black neighborhood of Treme. But musicians vow to play on.
    By Larry Blumenfeld October 29, 2007

  • Skid row makeover

    With chic lofts on the rise, Los Angeles' impoverished residents are being driven out of the last place they can call home.
    By Evelyn Nieves August 8, 2006

  • "You got messed-up color"

    When my husband and I moved to a mostly black neighborhood four years ago, 8-year-old Tyrone became our friend. Then one day he asked me if I was white.
    By Robin Lentz May 4, 2004

  • Bohemia lost

    I turn my back on a city that turned my head and then broke my heart.
    By King Kaufman August 8, 2001

  • San Francisco's Proposition L is "too close to call"

    With a margin narrow enough to be called "presidential," the outcome of the anti-development measure remains up in the air.
    By Damien Cave November 11, 2000

  • Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?

    San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
    By Damien Cave November 6, 2000

  • Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech

    San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
    By Wagner James Au November 6, 2000

  • Lounge Axed

    Good rock clubs die every month, but Chicago's finest was better than any of them.
    By Neal Pollack January 19, 2000

  • Whip me, spank me, gentrify me

    A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
    By Annalee Newitz January 15, 2000

  • Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?

    When a Salon article suggested that the dot-commers had killed everything wacky and wonderful about San Francisco, our mailbox was flooded with reader replies. The debate continues here.
    November 2, 1999

  • I'm the enemy!

    At a meeting of San Franciscans trying to stop gentrification, I realize that I'm the Internet yuppie scum that's ruining my neighborhood!
    By Carol Lloyd October 29, 1999

  • How the Internet ruined San Francisco

    The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.
    By Paulina Borsook October 28, 1999

  • The malling of America

    Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
    By Jenn Shreve August 13, 1999

  • From red-line to renaissance

    Things are looking up in Harlem, but some poor black families are being driven out by the neighborhood renewal.
    By Keith Moore August 2, 1999
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