Comments on: Two Great Pieces @ The NY Times… http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2006/10/23/two-great-pieces-the-ny-times/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RF http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2006/10/23/two-great-pieces-the-ny-times/comment-page-1/#comment-173 RF Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:15:52 +0000 http://zstation/creativeclass/v3/creative_class/2006/10/23/two-great-pieces-the-ny-times/#comment-173 Brian, I always remember what Jane Jacobs told me when I asked her about this kind of gentrification cum homogenization... She said,"When a place gets boring even the rich people leave." Staid, boring places which lack diversity and no longer tap into human energy won't thrive for very long. Brian,

I always remember what Jane Jacobs told me when I asked her about this kind of gentrification cum homogenization… She said,”When a place gets boring even the rich people leave.” Staid, boring places which lack diversity and no longer tap into human energy won’t thrive for very long.

]]> By: Brian Knudsen http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2006/10/23/two-great-pieces-the-ny-times/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Brian Knudsen Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:46:00 +0000 http://zstation/creativeclass/v3/creative_class/2006/10/23/two-great-pieces-the-ny-times/#comment-172 In his book The Last Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby writes (48-9): "Gentrification has also brought in its wake accelerating rents and a new homogenization; both of these threaten city diversity and bohemian culture. None of this is especially new. Jane Jacobs in 1961 commented upon the dangers of urban success, at the time a rarity. Desirable neighborhoods attract the affluent, who squeeze out the less affluent. Jacobs writes, 'So many people want to live in the locality that it becomes profitable to build, in excessive and devastating quantity, for those who can pay the most. These are usually childless people...and...people who can or will pay the most for the smallest space. Accomodations for this narrow, profitable segment of population multiply, at the expense of all other tissue and all other population. Families are crowded out, variety of scene is crowded out, enterprises...are crowded out.'" Apparently true in New York as well as Olathe. In his book The Last Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby writes (48-9): “Gentrification has also brought in its wake accelerating rents and a new homogenization; both of these threaten city diversity and bohemian culture. None of this is especially new. Jane Jacobs in 1961 commented upon the dangers of urban success, at the time a rarity. Desirable neighborhoods attract the affluent, who squeeze out the less affluent. Jacobs writes, ‘So many people want to live in the locality that it becomes profitable to build, in excessive and devastating quantity, for those who can pay the most. These are usually childless people…and…people who can or will pay the most for the smallest space. Accomodations for this narrow, profitable segment of population multiply, at the expense of all other tissue and all other population. Families are crowded out, variety of scene is crowded out, enterprises…are crowded out.’”

Apparently true in New York as well as Olathe.

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