tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38519501.post6592909031610061388..comments2024-03-28T21:49:02.667+00:00Comments on History is made at night: Saving London Venues: the Half Moon and the FoundryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38519501.post-42796454054445717442010-01-01T21:44:41.586+00:002010-01-01T21:44:41.586+00:00Thanks, I didn't know about Sausalito, I guess...Thanks, I didn't know about Sausalito, I guess the same process has happened in New York's Lower East Side. Of course local working class people often complain about bars and pubs being taken over by 'hipsters', who then complain in turn about being turfed out by the next level up the property chain. Even then you can get the middle class property owners who displace the hipsters complaining when they in turn are priced out of the housing market by higher paid middle class/upper class people (e.g. teachers and public sector professionals get displaced by people from the financial sector)..https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38519501.post-69448273097519460522010-01-01T14:31:31.284+00:002010-01-01T14:31:31.284+00:00Good to see both campaigns.
Re: your text book ca...Good to see both campaigns.<br /><br />Re: your text book case of urban regeneration, it was Zen philosopher Alan Watts who observed back in the 60s that hipsters/hippies act as kind of 'cultural manure' in regenerating areas, and that far from discouraging them, Govts/Local Authorities should relax regulations to encourage hipsters to move in and regenerate areas better than Govt. programmes.<br /><br />He himself lived on a houseboat in Sausalito in an area that has now gone through exactly the same text book pattern: from squatted boats for hipsters to expensive luxury houseboats for Google executives and other wealthy professionals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com