CS350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fordism, Flexicurity, Precognition
Document Summary
Loft living transforming old factories into lofts to live in: gritty, industrial sensibility. Artist live-work spaces: artists could live in their studios. Studios set up in distillery: starts to transform area. Liberty village: where art-scape is based, cheap, lot of artists living there, abandoned industrial space. Ripe for redevelopment: influx of small companies/new start-ups, the artists that were living there all start getting kicked out. Rent was raised because start-up firms/people who work for them are willing to pay more artists couldn"t afford this raise: condos built antithesis of bohemian", process known as gentrification. Gentrification: commoditized, corporate, urbanization, people are pushed out to make room for bigger companies. Bring together residents of mixed-income, mixed-race communities together. Building spaces like libraries, community centres, schools, etc. that represent diverse neighborhood interests that encourage social interactions across race and class. Policies i. e. rent control, tax freezes, long-term leases, increasing minimum wages and building middle income.
