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‘Artwashing’, Gentrification And Real Estate Development

ISSUES Posted: June 25, 2014 11:02 pm

The formerly run-down Balfron Tower public housing project in East London, where artists are being given temporary leases as the complex is being converted to higher-end apartments, is the latest high-profile example of a process that “presents regeneration not through its long-term effects – the transfer of residency from poor to rich – but as a much shorter journey from neglect to creativity.”

ISSUES Published: 06.24.14

Read the story in CityLab Published: 06.24.14

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