#Redevelopment

[liberalsarecool]

We need more of this walkable civic redevelopment. Repurpose dying malls and parking lots. Make green spaces, roof gardens, and increase public transit.

This is the future we all want. And deserve.

[asiaphotostudio]

Shanghai, 1996 Shanghai, China. 中国 上海市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[kankan70]

消えゆく風景。

[poemdalia]

☆ Seulgui Simple Lockscreen !

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[johndunwin]

Main street Skokie - waiting for redevelopment

[chaddavisphotography]

New banners up as we near the 4th anniversary of protesters burning the Minneapolis police third precinct police station. After no major site activity since 2020, the city says they're going to begin site cleanup and take fencing down.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The saga of San Juan Hill, cont'd (for Part I, see this post)

On September 11, 1957, residents of San Juan Hill, the integrated, predominantly working-class neighborhood on the West Side between 59th and 65th Streets and West End and Amsterdam Avenues, showed up at City Hall. They were protesting the destruction of their homes for the purpose of building an arts complex called Lincoln Center.

The public hearing lasted nearly 11 hours, with 24 speakers supporting the project and 36 opposed. The issue was framed as housing vs. culture. They also pointed out that the housing units that Robert Moses had reluctantly agreed to build as part of the redevelopment would be out of the price range of current residents.

Two weeks later, West Side Story opened on Broadway. It took place entirely in San Juan Hill, although the community was never referred to by name. Although it's hard to believe now, the show received generally cool reviews; critics were taken aback by its grim realism and aggressive, jazzy score (by Leonard Bernstein).

Many neighborhood residents were offended by the portrayal of their home. Puerto Ricans, who made up 24% of the population who lived there, objected particularly to the line in the show-stopping number "America" that called Puerto Rico an "island of tropical diseases." (They ignored the context, which is a back-and-forth between a Puerto Rican girl who romanticizes the island and another who mocks her dreamy outlook.)

On October 25, the Board of Estimate, which was then the city's main decision-making body, held another hearing on the redevelopment project. This one lasted 18 hours, but it seemed that the Board's minds were made up. In late November, they voted unanimously to go ahead with Lincoln Center. Next June, the first residents of San Juan Hill were relocated.

In 1960, as the last of the brownstones were being demolished, a film crew moved in. It was the (first) screen version of West Side Story.

Photo: Gothamist

[eopederson]

Gentrification, Canal Lachine, Montréal, 2023.

Once lined with flour mills, grain storage facilities and other industrial uses, the land along the canal is now being developed with lofts and condos.

[sometimeslondon]

Battersea Power Station

I thought I had just got lucky with the clouds when I took this photo of the re-developed Battersea Poaer Station which is now shops, restaurants and apartments. In fact it is genuine vapour from the development's own own energy centre.

[anniekoh]

Redevelopment in Seoul

Area south of Itaewon becomes ghost town as Hannam New Town project pushes forward, Korea Times (July 2024)

The curtains are set to close around a large neighborhood south of central Seoul’s Itaewon, the first phase of the Hannam New Town redevelopment project.

Hannam Zone 3, the first of possibly four to commence, comprises parts of Bogwang-dong and Hannam-dong, separated by a narrow, tall ridge now filled with abandoned storefronts, some with their windows shattered. Unwanted furniture is piled along the alleyways, and scavengers prowl around during the day, loading whatever’s salvageable into their trucks. The green 01 village bus still weaves through the area but without passengers on this part of its route. As night falls, the streetlights still switch on, but the windows of the area’s many homes and shops remain dark. Everywhere, nature is creeping back in, but its lease is only temporary before full demolition begins.About seven months of large-scale evictions wrapped up last month, and almost all the area’s residents have moved on. The area was depopulated without violence, but the resulting derelict cityscape still feels more unsettling than calm, like a taped-off police crime scene, or a city evacuated after a disaster or the ruins of an ancient civilization wiped out by an invading force. After decades of delays, Seoul’s most culturally and economically diverse neighborhood begins its inevitable transformation into its most affluent. “It needs to happen. It should have happened decades ago. Is it kind of sad that it will inevitably become a copy/paste of other uber-rich areas in Korea? Kind of,” said a Canadian national who wished to be identified only by the name Gordon. “It would be nice if it could be developed with a new character of its own, but what can you do? It is some of the most central, most valuable land in Seoul, if not the entire country. It can’t remain as a dump that resembles 1960s Korea. Will it lead to ‘improvements for people’? Sure, those who can afford it.”

[asiaphotostudio]

Nanning, 1996 Nanning, Guangxi, China. 中国 広西 南寧市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[londonedge]

Keeling House in Bethnal Green

Not sure if this counts as urban. Keeling House was originally owned by Tower Hamlets Council but fell into such disrepair that the council was forced to sell to a private developer who converted it into expensive private housing.

[sweetlyeclecticvoid]

CRANE Photo by thesuccess Courtesy of MorgueFile https://bit.ly/3WLl8Oz

[redevelopment77-blog]

[grusik]

Ricardo Cavolo - 905 mural Kathy Toth || Toronto Graffiti Archive || Instagram This is the final 905 mural series I have. This artist got the best spot in my opinion but I'm still leaning on Bird0 being my favorite. by Kathy T | Toronto