urbanMSP

Yes, how is the Copper Hen Cakery? And the fancy gift shop next door?

Why don't folks want cake shops and fancy gift shops? Not my thing, mind you, but what's bad about having them as neighbors?

Cake shops are not authentically urban, see?

I don't think anyone hate cake shops, they're just more the sort of thing you'd expect at 50th and France than Nicollet and 25th.

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.

Excellent straw man.

Cake shops are for the cake-eaters in Edina. We city folk like our rough bread and barley soup. Urban is gritty, you know - we don't want to gentrify.

Excellent straw man.

Kidding aside, I live near turtle bread and can't imagine why somebody would object to a bakery of any type!

Honestly, if we're just going by smells outside I say every building should be a bakery.

I think people are just worried that when Nicollet continues to improve, a lot of the restaurants they like will be pushed out to somewhere else. I don't want everything to stay the same forever (far from it really), but as someone with a fairly low income it's depressing to watch; Uptown is already too expensive for me to eat or drink at more than once in a blue moon.

An interesting article about gentrification.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/gent ... arbitrage/

Astute observations about the perception of crime, which one would think be applicable to school quality.

Case Closed. Gentrification and Hipsters are good for neighborhoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjAZ6utVFY

Couple links on the "G" word.

"Is Urban Revitalization Without Gentrification Possible?"
http://dirt.asla.org/2014/09/26/is-urba ... -possible/

"OK, Gentrification Is Lousy. Now What?" (A rebuttal to the jacobin article?)
http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/ok-gentr ... -now-what/

http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/the-trail ... e-universe

Not exactly gentrification the way most people would describe it, but a good read.

Fascinating national metro region study of long term trends in urban poverty. Echos Orfield's work that poverty concentration is a larger problem than poverty displacement. The website has really great maps for those who don't like to read.
http://cityobservatory.org/lost-in-place/

MinnPost shares the above data for MSP, with a solid headline: http://www.minnpost.com/data/2014/12/ma ... es-worries

^Very interesting. I have to assume a lot of SE Minneapolis' increased poverty has to do with the influx of students concentrating into the Dinkytown area and their continued spread into Como and the western parts of Marcy Holmes?

I suspect a lot of the increases in poverty are. The areas along the 2 in Ventura Village and Seward have a lot of students too.

Some of them are a little strange to me, though. Loring Park? Whittier? Some of that is probably from MCAD students, but I can't imagine that's all of it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... eople.html

"The Myth of Gentrification - It’s extremely rare and not as bad for the poor as you think."

This kind of fits in here, but it's kind of ambiguous, so mods please move wherever.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015 ... office.php

The "Whose Diversity?" takeover of U of M President Kaler's office included multiple demands, including one that seems a little odd:

-Halting all luxury apartment developments near the university
...along with...
-Building more affordable housing closer to the center of campus

They seem to be making (more or less) a gentrification argument here, but I think they fail to grasp how private property works. You can't tell Doran or whoever to just stop building because you don't like it.

The affordable piece is laudable, but something tells me their demands are some loftier version of the University strong-arming developers into artificially lowering rents.

I dunno. Demands like this just kinda strike the wrong chord (but, of course, they're populist demands).