Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?
in the late 2010s, when she was working there at an urbanism nonprofit. Gonzalez saw it as a form of gentrification, or even an echo of colonialism in a postcolonial country. Generically minimalist coffee shops were popping up on Kloof Street, in Cape Town Central. Gonzalez identified them by their “long wooden tables, wrought-iron finishings,…
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