Berlin is a city that people visit for a weekend, a week maybe, a friend told them to come and stay a few days — ‘it’s such an interesting city, you’ve got to experience it.’ So, you feel the pull of the offer, and go. At first, just like any city, Berlin is full of strange faces […]
How Authenticity and Gentrification Destroys Communities
“Gentrification, at its deepest level, is really about reorienting the purpose of cities away from being spaces that provide for the poor and middle classes and toward being spaces that generate capital for the rich.”― Peter Moskowitz Neighbourhoods gentrified by profit driven developers, chain stores grabbing plots of land in every trendy part of the city. […]