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A community can gentrify without losing its identity -- examples from Pittsburgh, Boston and Newark of what works

  • Written by Anthony Alvarez, Lecturer of Arts, Culture & Media, Rutgers University - Newark
imageA street mural by Manuel Acevedo at Halsey Place in Newark, N.J.Anthony Alvarez, CC BY-NC-ND

How can neighborhoods gentrify without erasing their heart and voice?

It’s an important question to ask now, I’d suggest, since many communities across the U.S. are at risk of losing their historical identities as new people and businesses move...

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