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Published in: Home: FeatureWhat Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification
Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat
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Published in: Home: FeatureGrassroots group priced out of once-derelict building it rescued in 2011
To the people who use it, Marsh House is a vital resource. But with public funds scarce, its future is now in doubt
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy culture competitions and 'artwashing' drive urban inequality
From Los Angeles to Liverpool to the new London competition, 'creative cities' policies are designed to soften...
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Published in: TransformationEast end boys and west end boys: does gentrification lead to homophobia?
Three men recently attacked my date and I in London's gay village Soho. They threw coins and shouted "faggot". I...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs art really to blame for gentrification?
Art is being used as a medium for gentrification, as the middle class displaces that of the working class in poorer...