Dec 28 Who fights for public art in the face of gentrification? By Jennifer Hijazi Street and public art is increasingly at risk of destruction as neighborhoods develop and gentrify. But new case law could protect public art in courts. Continue reading
Oct 14 Gentrification is awkward, painful and funny in this new web series on North Oakland By Ivette Feliciano The comedy tells the story of the three friends who struggle to stay rooted in their historically black and Latino community as it faces changing racial and class dynamics. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch 9:04 Has urban revival caused a crisis of success? By PBS NewsHour, Sarah Clune Hartman Attract members of the "creative class" to a city and they will create jobs and spur urban renewal. But that idea, championed by noted urbanologist Richard Florida, has a double-edged downside: increased economic segregation and less affordable housing. Economics correspondent… Continue watching
Oct 02 East New York painter confronts the ‘brutal’ force of gentrification By Arlene Lormestoire “Deconstruction,” a new series of paintings by Patrick Eugéne, unveils the effects of gentrification within East New York, Brooklyn, where he grew up and still lives. Continue reading
Jul 01 What people not from Detroit need to know about Detroit By Kristen Doerer "When people come to Detroit they see Detroit as a blank canvas and a blank slate....But that’s not true," says Aaron Foley, author of “How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass.”… Continue reading
Jan 06 Overworked and leisure starved, skilled workers move to city center By Making Sen$e Editor Moving closer to city centers is a time-saver for better-educated, better-paid "leisure losers."… Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch 4:52 Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco By PBS News Hour Ninety-six-year-old Lawrence Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco in the 1950s, where he opened the City Lights bookshop and publishing house. But today San Francisco is better known as a central hub of the tech boom than of countercultural creativity. Jeffrey… Continue watching
Feb 25 Watch 7:44 Art empowers and preserves Houston community By PBS News Hour Two decades ago, Houston’s Third Ward was struggling with crime, drugs and abandoned homes. Back then, Rick Lowe was one of many artists who bought and transformed area row houses into spaces for work, exhibition and as art itself, bringing… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch NewsHour Connect: DCentric Examines Washington D.C.’s Unemployment Disparity For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
May 03 Watch The Death of an Architectural Myth For more on this story, visit PBS NewsHour Art Beat, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/… Continue watching