gentrification

What students are talking about today (January 11th)

I did a short interview earlier this week with a writer from NOW Magazine in Toronto, about a new art exhibition down in a Parkdale warehouse called A City Renewal Project. I haven’t seen the show, but I gather that what the artists have done is recreate a rundown neighbourhood in the warehouse/gallery, as a way of commenting on gentrification and the way it literally papers over the decay and poverty in our midst.