gentrification

MyPE is aware that the upgrade of areas such as Central and Richmond Hill will bring the fear of 'gentrification' and the possibility of displacing people who can ill afford to travel into the inner city daily in order to work. As the 'change agent' tasked with managing the upgrade we though that maybe the clever people at the Mandela Bay Development Agency would benefit from this TED Talk by Liz Ogbu who is an architect working on spatial justice. Liz Ogbu is an architect who works … [Read more...] about Heads Up MBDA – What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?