Tag: Urban geography
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The Abandoned Mansions of London
There are quite a few mansions in London which are empty – appallingly given the housing crisis. Whole areas are bought up by foreign (and probably dodgy) oligarchs and left to rot, an investment rather than a home. Here is a fascinating look at the dilapidated towers of capitalism in one street in North London.…
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TV Killed the Lower East Side
Even the style is retro New York video art in this humourous video by Jade Katzenellenbogen – but the real star of this story about gentrification in New York’s Lower East Side is Petunia, the rat. If Kardashians can have a show, so can she! I assume it’s a she, unless it’s a genderqueer rat?…