Gentrification - Salon.com

The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage

By Cary Tennis — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

To disguise a neighbor's less-than-pristine house, she planted a hedge on the other person's land!

The strangers next door

By Laura Miller — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.

Band on the run in New Orleans

By Larry Blumenfeld — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

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.

Skid row makeover

By Evelyn Nieves — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

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

"You got messed-up color"

By Robin Lentz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

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.

Bohemia lost

By King Kaufman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

I turn my back on a city that turned my head and then broke my heart.

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

By Damien Cave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

With a margin narrow enough to be called "presidential," the outcome of the anti-development measure remains up in the air.

Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?

By Damien Cave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.

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

By Wagner James Au — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.

Lounge Axed

By Neal Pollack — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

Good rock clubs die every month, but Chicago's finest was better than any of them.

Whip me, spank me, gentrify me

By Annalee Newitz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.

Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

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.

I'm the enemy!

By Carol Lloyd — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

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

How the Internet ruined San Francisco

By Paulina Borsook — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.

The malling of America

By Jenn Shreve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.

From red-line to renaissance

By Keith Moore — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PDT

Things are looking up in Harlem, but some poor black families are being driven out by the neighborhood renewal.