Gentrification in Gif Form

In New York magazine, Joe Coscarelli looks at a digital art project by Justin Blinder which uses Google Street View “to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.” Coscarelli also links to a recent story by Justin Davidson: “Is Gentrification All Bad?”

“Yet gentrification can be either a toxin or a balm. There’s the fast-moving, invasive variety nourished by ever-rising prices per square foot; then there’s a more natural, humane kind that takes decades to mature and lives on a diet of optimism and local pride. It can be difficult to tell the two apart.


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