East London gentrification

It all just stuff not worthy of the anger. I've been to yoga classes you know.

Ha ha one of the organizers at the event was Dr Lisa McKenzie

Eeerrrrmmm arrived in London in 2013/4 to take up a position as a research fellow at the London School of economics. She is studying the neighborhood

Surely one of the gentrified if you ask me!!

Her old work previous to this was on an area in her hometown Nottingham it focussed on a council estate which had problems one being a lack of investment, businesses and jobs!!!

She seems to change with her papers....

Not very Power to the people at all. A quote from her directly...on her current work studying an area of East London
My role on the team is specifically focused on the group at the bottom of the class structure we have called the Precariat.
What a f'kin joke!!!!

@iggywiggy sorry mate don't use Facebook here. It came from LSE and BBC if you must know!!!


"Power to the Precariat!!!"..........as me and my Gentry friends like poledance call them

Also think the suggestion of them doing the Ripper Museum came from an article laughing at them in today's Gaurdian!! So not even sure it was their idea!!

I can't follow this thread due to my lack of knowledge of UK politics and such.

can someone please summarize it in a way a New Yorker would understand? aka:

(artisnal cronut shop) was center of a protest by (Steampunks) in the (Bushwick) area because of (changes in rent controlled law) but it's really because of (guys in skinny jeans overcharging for beer) but the opposition says its because of (shoegaze music coming back)

but fill in the (___) with the real USA equivalent noun. I know this sounds like a crazy Madlib but I'm genuinely interested but don't know understand the specifics

I really shouldn't have to do this but I am giving you a break. Just this once .Google say LSESU and activism or protest.

I'm not talking about the mung bean picking on a Sunday afternoon with the student union or campaigning for free tuition fees. But the actual degree contents, which broadly subscribe to a free market persuasion. The exact persuasion that is providing its students with the tools to run companies like Lend Lease, which invest in large developments in areas like East London. So, it's a strange example that you pick.

oh maybe that wasn't meant for me? or maybe it was? either way

Its not rocket science, open a shop next door selling bacon butties, bye bye cereal shop.
You could also start a rumour in the bling hood like cereal makes you impotent.
BTW I dont agree with the yobs using fear and scare mongering, I'm not very religiuos either.
Nor do I have a problem with people opening a shop selling overpriced cereal, if people want to spend money on overpriced cereal thats up to them, maybe its just a social thing, people spend £2 on a cuppa tea and a tea bags 2p.

fed - its just like wot you have in the rougher parts of Brooklyn, where encroachment is pushing people out and mom and pop corners shops are being replaced by shops that pay more rental and that sell niche & often superflous products that appeal to those who like the conspicuous consumption aspect of the newly arrived outlets . Except here we have Class War who like to get drunk and make headlines with OTT happenings

It has nothing to do with the cereal café really. They were just there at the time. Estate agents are usually the prime target.

sadly, that sounds like every major American city, though it seems it hasn't hit the smaller cities that were historically manufacturing cities as much (think Buffalo, Albany Pittsburgh), for the most part. those cities are just empty - victim of white flight that never really reversed itself... might be changing a bit now though as prices to live in smaller cities are more affordable and appealing than the 'burbs to first time home buyers

(side note - my aunt lived 'round the corner from CBGB's in the late 60's early 70's... paid something like $60 a month in rent for years, then got sued by her landlord in the late 80's and evicted. the apartment is now in the thousands of dollars a month, I believe. and CBGB's is now a John Varvatos shop. makes me sick to my stomach. have many fond memories of playing that dark, dank club)... living costs in many major cities is unreal

a large question is - would you rather have the "niche" shops that cater to upper middle class whites mostly, or big box stores catering to the lower class? it's a question that won't be answered anytime soon, especially with the income gap that continues to exist

the middle, blue collar class is dwindling in numbers

another side note - unaffordable city living has a direct correlation to diminished art communities... if artists can't afford to live, or live without 2-3 jobs, they aren't staying in the cities and don't have the time or community to foster a creative environment.. that's why you'll see music scenes in smaller cities, but not the larger ones