The latest conflagration takes place in LA’s Frogtown (Elysian Valley) neighborhood, where shortsighted anti-gentrification activists recently succeeded in shuttering a popular flea-market crawl.
However now Chinatown is being developed into an up-and-coming neighbourhood of the city. Newly opened fashion stores, trendy cafes and rising condos are a visible sign of Chinatown's gentrification.
A new lecture was brought to the Iowa State Lecture Series this week, co-sponsored by the department of sociology and criminal justice and the Committee on Lectures: “Extractive Industry, Historic ...