Monday 5th November sees Dispatches taking a look at the issues around house prices and the property ‘boom’.
The programme is at 8pm on Channel 4, and promises to tackle the issue of whether a generation now exists that will never be able to afford their own homes.
November 4, 2007
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Tom Vague’s excellent Bash the Rich Radical History Tour of Notting Hill pamphlet is now available.
A riotous, left wing, pop cultural, psychogeographic historical ramble through the streets of the forever beating heart of the capital’s most left field neighbourhood – Notting Hill – courtesy of anarcho-historian and psychgeographer Vague.
From race course riots to race riots; [...]
October 15, 2007
Categories: Gentrification . . Author: bashtherich . Comments: 1 Comment
The Save Meanwhile Gardens website is now up and running, with a big event planned for Sunday 14th October.
Get your arses down there, and in the meantime, visit the website here.
October 4, 2007
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Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class area to south of the city.
Their first project is the conversion of a deserted 1970s Imperial Tobacco factory on the fringes of the city into [...]
September 30, 2007
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