Posts tagged Gentrification
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Breakfast links: Kicked out
NPS punts soccer team from the Ellipse; Bikes make it across the bridge; Metro morsels; Arlington faces heat for protecting its residents; Black folks can gentrify, too?; Developers sad that sprawl may be harder; Consequences of Congress; Poplar Point won’t get DHS project; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harder to breathe
Nostalgic for Snowmageddon; Cycletracks cut the gender gap; New Metro features coming soon; Is gentrification all about displacement?; Flash mob protests Walmart; DC’s techies selective with neighborhoods; Virginia has a bastion of traditional family; Population mapped to the block; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing the landscape
“Shallow” look at gentrification?; Freemasons pushed out, too; Purple Line will reshape communities; Carma-nothing; Be careful, pedestrians AND drivers; Congestion relief for BRAC?; Learn how to deal with a crash; And in PG…; And in DC…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 12 dirty pols
Why nobody spoke up; Bond tax delayed 1 year; No bus garage at Walter Reed; Bulger not a regular rider; Parking required at historic train station; ANC supports waterfront development; Walmart asked for transit improvements; Greens not for transit. Keep reading…
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See you Sunday in Anacostia, 3 weeks at Clybourne Park
This Sunday is GGW’s tour of the Anacostia Museum, and there’s less than 3 weeks left until our happy hour and watching of Clybourne Park. The Anacostia museum trip starts at noon with a brown bag lunch. At 1, we’ll tour the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, then see the Anacostia Art Gallery at 3. It’s all free; RSVP here. You can reach… Keep reading…
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Sign up for the Anacostia field trip and Clybourne Park
There’s just over one week left until our group trip to the Anacostia Community Museum and Anacostia Art Gallery, and 4 weeks until we see the play Clybourne Park. Sign up or buy your tickets now! Keep reading…
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Gentrification a matter of economics, not ethnicity
Is gentrification black and white? Or economic? Last week, at a meeting about the often ominous issue of gentrification, a panel of young black professionals rejected the common idea that gentrification means white people moving into black neighborhoods. Instead, they argued, gentrification is about economics and a product of market forces. The panel, “The Gentrification… Keep reading…
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Let’s explore gentrification together with Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park, the award-winning play about gentrification, is coming back to DC this summer, and Greater Greater Washington is organizing a group outing to the show on July 28. We can think and talk about what gentrification means to DC at that performance, and also tonight at a panel with Veronica Davis. The play draws on the 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, where an African-American… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Hang out at the gas station
Eat here, get gas; Gas dependence varies nationally; Station manager to the rescue; Pay by mail fine for a coma; Senate pushes for complete streets; WMATA improving web outreach; No ultimatum to Walmart; Only laws the police know about matter; Rehab the rehabbers; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike to work today
Shift your mode today; Refill SmarTrip online next month; Loudoun might drop the Silver Line; MPD’s demographics shift; Post-9/11 security eases slightly; Rail operators run red signals; Just steps from Walmart!; DC Water at odds with Earthjustice; And…. Keep reading…