Sublime

Joey Goldblatt l’invita à rejoindre la Troubadours Society, qui lui loua un petit mais luxueux appartement au-dessus du club. L’objectif des Troubadours était de vous permettre de rester au centre de Manhattan, à proximité de votre fonds, et de laisser le reste du monde venir à soi depuis Brooklyn, Berlin ou ailleurs. Ces Troubadours étaient

People on the site would have to be removed—evicted, dispossessed, thrown out, relocated—and removal would rend the fabric of their lives. The lives of those near the site might not be rent but they would certainly be altered, for the physical environment which did so much to shape their daily existence would be altered, not only in dramatic ways

Evidence also suggests that when average incomes tend to rise in a neighborhood relative to its surrounding areas, the racial demographics of the areas are slower to change. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey, for example, finds that the lessening of poverty in US neighborhoods between 1970 and 2000 is not associated with white residents displacing

we have not yet resolved is why the centers of many cities are actually occupied by poorer populations

the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.

This promise that there is a “hometown” for every kind of person suggests a very intimate kind of power. Zukin again: Our tastes as consumers—tastes for lattes and organic food, as well as for green spaces, boutiques, and farmers’ markets—now define the city, as they also define us. These tastes are reflected in the media’s language and images,