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“【Introduction】Join us for an unmissable discussion of the issues surrounding the UK’s housing crisis and how we can fight back.”

“【Introduction】Is gentrification inevitable? Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City, scrutinises the myth and lies and that surround this urgent urban crisis of our times.”

書籍

“【Description】This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability.”

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“【Description】The Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour offers an important contribution to the effort to uplift Black women’s intellectual, social and political work. We encourage community members, students, and educators to use this guidebook to organize tours in New York City, or as inspiration to design guidebooks in other neighborhoods and cities.”

記事

“【Introduction】In a special two-part series for Spectre journal, Andy Battle takes a look back at the long rationalization process that transformed New York City from a hustling, improvisational, and heterogeneous industrial hub to the post-industrial “suburb in the city” that it is for many today.”

“This year, the invasion of Ukraine brought sharp focus to the global wealth that has surged into British real estate over the last few decades. Around the time of the invasion, calls from across British society to seize oligarch owned property came from what might have previously seemed like unlikely sources. Tories including Michael Gove, and newspapers such as the Daily Mail were vocal in setting out the case for state sanctioned requisition. There was also direct action by anarchists taking over 5 Belgrave Square, a £25 million London mansion owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It felt like ― if only for a brief moment ― we had arrived at something a national consensus.”

“【Caption】The last 20 years have seen Manchester become the poster city of neoliberal urbanism with a dressing of radical chic. It's time to consider how we got here ― and how we take it back from the developers.”

“【Caption】Councils are pushed to allow ‘infill’ building on land they own ― but residents resist the loss of play space and open areas”

“【Quot.】Vicky Alvarez is on the phone, describing her local market in Seven Sisters, London. It may sound overly sentimental but it’s hard to comprehend just how integral this market really is to her.｜That’s because for Vicky, the market known locally as Pueblito Paisa, is considered Tottenham’s Latin Village ― the UK’s only Latin American indoor market ― and has become a home away from her former home, Colombia, where she was violently forced to flee from in 1990.”

“【Caption】Communities should mobilise against the property industry and its partners, not the people who move in their wake”／“【Quot.】But resistance is possible. It can come through rent strikes, squatters’ movements and the growth of community-led models of development, such as community land trusts and cooperative housing. We can push governments to use the regulatory tools at their disposal: eviction bans, rent stabilisation, community benefit ordinances, zoning and taxation.”

“【Exordium】I write this as an alcoholic, albeit dry. Castigating, criminalising and punishing street drinkers will only lead to unnecessary paperwork and a very good chance of exacerbating the issue further.”

“【Caption】A decade after the London 2012 Olympics, when gentrification swept across much of Newham, the future of the Hibiscus Community Centre is under threat.”

“【Caption】The Berkeley Faculty Association on how the struggle over the People's Park exposes the structural contradictions of privatization strategies at UC Berkeley.”／“【Exordium】Images of police officers clearing and enclosing People’s Park on 4th August for the construction of student housing had uncanny echoes of Ronald Reagan’s use of state violence to try to reclaim the park as university property in 1969. These parallels raise fundamental questions about the dilemmas all public universities in the US face in the twenty-first century.”

“【Caption】The continued existence of People's Park proves something dangerous: you, too, can seize something from the most powerful people in town, make it into whatever you want, and hold it for half a century.”／“【Introduction】Since this was written, defenders of People’s Park have reclaimed the space, and have been occupying it tirelessly. They have been working to clean the mess and repair the damage left by the police and private contractors’ assault on the gardens, the trees, and the belongings of the park’s inhabitants. On August 5th, a state appeals court issued an injunction temporarily halting construction in the park, and the University of California vowed not to restart the project until it is “safe” to do so for contractors, indirectly crediting direct action with successfully delaying the park’s destruction.”

“【Caption】The former mayor touted the £1.7bn London development as a vibrant beacon for Asian companies. Now there isn’t a single tenant ― though the dystopian setting is attracting film crews”

“【Exordium】A community action group has reacted angrily to Labour councillors in South Norwood signing up to a police scheme intended to clear the area of street drinkers｜Volunteers at the South Norwood Community Kitchen have characterised the plans as “social cleansing”, and warned of the “disastrous impact” that the scheme might have.”

“【Caption】Black women have long been cut out of affordable housing and business opportunities in New York City. Here’s what needs to change.”

“【引用】再開発の見直しを求める運動は、単に計画に反対する保守的な運動ではない。「みんなのもの」をどう定義するのか。都市とは誰のものなのか、といった社会の未来に向けた問いを提起している。”

“【Caption】Libraries can offer “important lessons” on including and welcoming women in communities, according to researchers.”

“【Caption】After so many other Olympic sites ended up left to rot, London 2012 was supposed to be different. But who has really benefited from this orgy of development?”

“【Caption】Everything seems awful right now. But the author of Abolition Geography insists that "without optimism," there’s "no point in bothering."”

“Torres teaches photography to teenage girls of color and gender-expansive youths to help them find their voice. The idea of owning this building is symbolic, she says. “To be able to say, both, I am on a path to ownership, and also I am spiritually, culturally, creatively inhabiting this space and owning this space, and taking up a space where our voices have historically been silenced is super important.””

“【Caption】Requiring councils to list neglected public land on which to plant fruit and vegetables would be a good thing”

“【Exordium】When photographer Emanuel Hahn moved from NY to LA during the first winter of the pandemic, he would park his car on the perimeter of Koreatown and go walking. The streets and alleyways, once bustling, were quiet and empty.｜Inside Koreatown’s restaurants, home and knick-knack stores, and barber shops, Hahn met dozens of business owners struggling to stay afloat.”

“【Exordium】After its first big shindig in Camden High Street had hit the news with a bang in May 1995, the second London Reclaim the Streets party was held on Sunday, July 23, at the Angel intersection in Islington, North London.”

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