As part of our recent activities looking at gentrification, we couldn’t help but be drawn back again and again to the different ways the subject is captured, tagged or depicted visually. We’ve pulled some of these together into a gallery, please expand it by emailing us your images or simply tagging us in your Tweets @new_met
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- An image of gentrification in the face of raw sewage, otherwise known as Life In These Here Five Boroughs. The cover refers to the Gowns Canal a thin ribbon of toxic sewage than runs through an ultra trendy area of Brooklyn. http://www.comicsbeat.com/nice-art-adrian-tomines-new-yorker-cover-gallery-a-snapshot-of-gentrification/
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- Precarity in Paradise https://twitter.com/15mbcn_int/status/687334738793750528
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- “OH I DON’T KNOW THESE BUILDINGS, I THINK I’M LOST” stencilled graffiti in Glasgow, posted by Leon Trollsky at http://athousandflowers.net/2013/06/11/whose-city-are-the-commonwealth-games-ruining-glasgow/
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- From: “how gentrification is destroying the london we live in” https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/how-gentrification-is-destroying-the-london-we-live-in
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- Gentrification In Progress http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/an-artist-put-up-giant-police-tape-to-protest-gentrification#.teENLoMye
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- Chaz Hutton’s Map of Every City http://www.shortlist.com/news/this-map-of-every-city-is-absolutely-perfect
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- Tagged by georgrehm as ‘gentrification’ on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/gentrification/
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- De-Gentrification Poster, Posted on Instagram by lexis_writing, Vienna, Austria
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- We Lose Space, Installation by Megan Wilson and Gordon Winiemko, San Francisco Art Commission Grove Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2000, photo by Megan Wilson http://www.stretcher.org/features/the_gentrification_of_our_livelihoods/
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- Illustration by Grayson Perry http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/12/grayson-perry-comic-art-world-jackson-pollock-damien-hirst-in-pictures
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- Housing Cartoon from Southwark Notes https://southwarknotes.wordpress.com/what-is-regeneration-gentrification/
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