Comments on: Riding the Wave of Vibrancy in Banglatown http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/09/riding-the-wave-of-vibrancy-in-banglatown/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 By: Vince Carducci http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/09/riding-the-wave-of-vibrancy-in-banglatown/comment-page-1/#comment-26030 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:08:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=15688#comment-26030 I appreciate the gentrification concern. In this case, it isn’t coming any time soon in this neighborhood anyway. Downtown Detroit is a different story. Pretty much all of the prime property has been bought up with visions of 400% returns. The folks at Power House are completely aware of the risks of bringing attention to their neighborhood with the ultimate effect being to push current residents out. That said, your point is well taken. That’s basically what the second to the last paragraph is about. But in this case it’s a question of scale. The investment is substantial, though in the case of the uber-uber-rich, a quarter of billion dollars isn’t out of the question. It’s just that in the near term there’s a lot more money to be made speculating in other parts of town.

]]> By: Colin ruggero http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/09/riding-the-wave-of-vibrancy-in-banglatown/comment-page-1/#comment-26025 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:34:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=15688#comment-26025 To claim ignorance in the face of gentrification is no act. It is a process,
ironically, that proceeds in its way regardless of desire. The moment of reflection indicates the mechanisms have already sealed the fate of many. I skate, I live in philly. here you don’t share your spots with out of towners because all the outsider and nyc kids show up and eventually something happens and cops appear and voila… Vegan burritos. This is the joke of public alter spaces in the urban us… YOU DONT CONTROL.

In college my local skate shop used to have this sweet back patio into an empty lot where we could do drugs smoke cigarettes and be cool in this g
ully pocket of town. A few years later it was a hip patio refuge shared by three bars and two coffee shops, who would call the cops on any nighttime skating.

I don’t mean to sound hopeless, only that we need to move beyond spaces we feel are resistance to a reality of actual practices of counterhegemony

#skateordie

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