“While the base materials (streets and houses) may be different in, say, NYC’s Greenpoint, Berlin’s Neukölln, or Madrid’s Malasaña, the trappings of gentrification – expensive coffee and bike shops, junk sold at a premium as “vintage” and, soon after, bitterly resented chain outlets – make these places seem increasingly homogenous.”
Feargas O’Sullivan: Why I Moved Back to the Suburbs for The Atlantic Cities.
He’s got a point. It’s getting increasingly hard to spot the difference between Shoreditch, the Mission, and Williamsburg.
(via blech)(via blech)
