Latest articles on Gentrification

The Portfolio: Global Africa Lab

Friday Global Africa Lab - 22 Jul 2020

A project by Global Africa Lab explores the future of Black neighbourhoods affected by gentrification in New York City

Regeneration vs gentrification

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 15 Nov 2019

Jo’burg’s Reserve Street has birthed several new spaces over the past two years. But at what cost?

Façade reveals Jozi’s entrails

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 21 Sep 2018

Happy Dhlame’s gritty exhibition weighs up the human cost of gentrification in the city

Developer withdraws interdict against Bo-Kaap

Article Raeesa Pather - 31 Jul 2018

Blok, a property development company, has withdrawn its interdict against Bo-Kaap residents in the “spirit of de-escalation”

Berlin’s hipsters want Google out

Article Daphne Rousseau - 15 Jun 2018

The tech giant’s planned campus in the German city angers anti-gentrification campaigners

M.I.A tackles gentrification amid Woodstock concert controversy

Article Raeesa Pather - 7 Jun 2018

M.I.A is known for her anti-capitalist stance. So the choice to perform at a symbol of gentrification in Woodstock raised speculation among her fans.

I like your new restaurant, but not in my neighbourhood

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 22 Mar 2018

This documentary weaves the truth about gentrification today with a history of capitalist spatial planning

God’s pauper walks the talk

Article Paddy Harper - 21 Dec 2017

Durban’s lone street preacher follows a calling that eschews all physical comforts

Twin buildings still echo the changes in Salt River

Article Raeesa Pather - 21 Dec 2017

The Rex Trueform textile company employed generations of coloured people and its sale marks the end of an era that defined the area

From slum city to urban living hub: How Jo’burg got its groove back

Article Lucas Ledwaba - 27 Oct 2017

Home is not necessarily a glittering castle. It can be a cramped room on the first floor of an old, rundown building and the subject of a court case.

Evolving, cynical and everything in between

Article Kiri Rupiah - 1 Sep 2017

Kudzanai Chiurai’s latest exhibition goes beyond Revelations and Genesis into a more challenging space

Cape Town, use prime municipal land in the heart of the city to house the poor

Analysis Staff Reporter - 9 Sep 2016

Municipal property in the city should not be sold but used to build affordable housing

Evictions in Woodstock and the resistance against apartheid spatial planning

Article Raeesa Pather - 2 Sep 2016

People in the community are still waiting for permanent housing as the settlement grows in size and helplessness.

A City Refracted: Graeme Williams shoot the city’s innards

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 29 Oct 2015

Graeme Williams returns to track changes in the city in colour.

Urban renewal’s bourgeois curse

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Aug 2014

As rental prices go up and neighbourhoods begin to look the same, artists nationwide are finding themselves out in the cold.

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