Changing Urban Systems, IBDP Geographic Themes (Options), Urban Environmental and Social Stresses, Urban Environments

San Francisco and Gentrification – Vice

by Paul Alberts

This mini-expose uncovers the nature of gentrification in San Francisco and the effects on different neighbourhoods and communities running along market street. This clip is useful in how it shows the faces and names behind the causes and consequences of a controversial urban process.

https://hoodline.com/2016/04/vice-takes-a-video-tour-of-san-francisco-gentrification

Building Sustainable Urban Systems for the Future, Changing Urban Systems, Geography, IBDP Geographic Perspectives (Core), IBDP Geographic Themes (Options), The Variety of Urban Environments, Urban Environmental and Social Stresses, Urban Environments

Gentrification in Rotterdam – Mijn Stad Is Mijn Hart – VPRO

by Paul Alberts

My good friend and fellow geographer Arnoud Kamp recommended this (in Dutch) mini-documentary to me.  At only 45 minutes long, it goes into the diversity, personality, and future of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  If you know anything about Rotterdam and the transformation it is undergoing, you will know about the rapid gentrification that is taking over.  This documentary analyses the practical consequences of the drivers of this change.  One of the more apt and realistic presentations of the damages of gentrification and so called ‘urban renewal’.

 

https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2018-2019/mijn-stad-is-mijn-hart.html

 

THIS IS A MUST WATCH FOR DUTCH SPEAKERS INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY AND CITIES

Paul Alberts

Rotterdam, the Netherlands
pal@wolfert.nl