London Gentrification

[brogdale]

Surrogate for gentrification mapped:-



Red/Orange = substantial falls in Housing benefit caseload (2011-2016); Blues = rising caseload.

 

[not-bono-ever]

may as well dump this into Belushi's( RIP) Thread

High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on

mostly unsold, but look at this delightful take on its location

"Pryor said the Shard apartments have not been able to attract prices near the record £136m paid for a flat in the Candy brothers’ One Hyde Park for reasons that any avid watcher of TV property shows would know: “Location, location, location.”
“Kirstie and Phil tell us it every week, location, location, location. Rich people don’t want to shell out zillions living south of the river, it’s a shock enough living anywhere south of the [Hyde] park,” he said. “Nobody knows anyone who lives south of the river"

 

[Pickman's model]

Surrogate for gentrification mapped:-

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Red/Orange = substantial falls in Housing benefit caseload (2011-2016); Blues = rising caseload.

it would be much better done and more informative if there was more gradation between the changes. they don't cover equal percentage changes and undermine the utility of the map.

 

[stockwelljonny]

Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One Lost Knish Place at a Time - Interesting book review “A city once famously neurotic is becoming malignantly narcissistic,”

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One Lost Knish Place at a Time

 

[Pickman's model]

Only Fools and Horses tower block set to be DEMOLISHED | Daily Mail Online

yuppie flats everywhere
social housing destroyed

 

[Poi E]

I took grim pleasure in seeing how long it took to take down some of the tower blocks on the way up to London Bridge. Much better built than the plastic clad, spray-textured shit that replaced them.

 

[brogdale]

I'm hoping to visit this exhibition next week. An excerpt from an interesting piece about the exhibition:

In London today, as the group Architects for Social Housing (2017Architects for Social Housing. 2017. “Mapping London’s Estate Regeneration Programme.” Mapping London’s Estate Regeneration Programme - Architects for Social Housing (ASH). [Google Scholar]) have calculated, 237 estates are threatened by or are undergoing, or have recently undergone, some form of regeneration, demolition, or privatization, of which 195 are in boroughs run by the Labour Party. In the Labour borough of Lambeth, for example, this amounts to a net loss of some 9,500 council homes (Architects for Social Housing 2018Architects for Social Housing. 2018. Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration. https://architectsforsocialhousing.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/introduction1.pdf. [Google Scholar]).