Sentences with phrase «wrought by gentrification»

In conversations before Malliotakis» arrival, several attendees focused on the changes being wrought by gentrification and the consequential need for affordable housing and on charter schools as their top political interests.

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You can see the negative effects of gentrification in traditionally working class areas of London such as Hackney, where the demolition of estates to make way for new private housing complexes has led to some local residents on low incomes being relocated by the council to other parts of the country, away from their families and support networks.

Diaz is doing his best to ensure that gentrification works to the benefit of hardworking Bronxites for stayed through the fires, devastation, and neglect by city government.

DeVille of Bronx, N.Y., an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, says the work is inspired by Jacob Lawrence's Migration series and that it comments on gentrification in the Washington neighborhood.

Artists, said Jenny Dubnau, who is one of the authors of the alternative plan, need to reckon with how they are often used by real - estate interests to increase gentrification, as well as the overall expense of working in the city.

Pope.L is included in The Barnes Foundation's exhibition, Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

Closed Quarters Curated by Rodrigo Valenzuela Opening Reception: Wednesday July 12, 5:00 - 8:00 PM Exhibition: July 13 - September 29, 2017 Guest curated by Los Angeles -(formerly Seattle --RRB- based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela, Closed Quarters brings together video works that use the mis - en - scene of domestic environments as a site of vulnerability, especially in its relationship with privacy, gentrification, and intimacy.

His most recent body of work, Tomorrow Land, contrasts the failures of modern technologies — American cities brought low by pollution and gentrification — with symbols of a better future that science and technology might bring.

Alluding to the changes brought about by gentrification, renovation and development, Every Straight Line is the Arc of a Great Circle is a mixed media work that resembles a house under construction.

In 2014, in the wake of its sharp and well - substantiated criticism of the pressure caused by «turbo - capitalism» and gentrification on Berlin's independent art scene, the self - organised group Haben & Brauchen («to have and to need») opened a working group to define «art terms between autonomy and functionalization ``.

Exposing the underbelly of corporate practices — rapid de-industrialization and outsourcing, environmental negligence, and inner - city gentrification — Frazier's work examines the crises of postindustrial communities and the class divisions wrought by capital.

Installed in the kitchen cabinets of one of the apartments, the artist describes the work thus: «these ghost - like images of Harlem's architecture set aglow by a backlight, represent the community's complex and layered history of development, Renaissance, decline and current gentrification.»

Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

The term «gentrification» was coined in 1964 in England by a sociologist, Ruth Glass, noticing how inner - city London was changing: middle class moving in, working class moving out.