A lot of the conversation in Kester’s “Critical Framework for Dialogical Practice,” involves the gentrification of urban areas. And while the paper mainly focuses on New York locales, the shock waves of this idea can be seen today, most recently in Detroit and Chicago.
In Chicago, the Ida B. Welles Projects were torn down and replaced with upscale townhomes. Some of the residents of the projects were displaced, while others received free housing in the townhomes. The free housing is thanks to more affluent neighbors paying for their apartments for upwards of $500,000 spaces. Here is a video.
In Detroit, A city that currently is the least populated in the United States and has the highest crime is trying to attract graduating students and 20somethings to live within the city in order to boost the local economy as well as make it a livable city.
Both of these cities to a certain extent are trying to create a faux-culture, community.
-Chase
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