Category: Gentrification

‘To succeed meant to leave’: inside the jolting film about Brummie estate kids knocked flying by demolition

The novel had no hero, no dialogue and little action. So how was I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning turned into such a funny, rousing and acclaimed film? Director Clio Barnard reveals allAs a kid in 90s Birmingham, Keiran...

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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been brokenDiana Sach once employed more than 30 people and catered for hundreds more every day from her...

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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been brokenDiana Sach once employed more than 30 people and catered for hundreds more every day from her...

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‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London?

£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or worseArriving in Manchester...

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