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How Venture Capital Flattens Neighborhoods
Associate Teaching Professor of Community Studies Alison Alkon explained how gentrification tends to happen in phases, and the latest phase, funded by venture capital, has attempted to co-opt the aesthetic of the independent businesses that are often last hold-outs in the resistance against gentrification. “The force of this countermovement that was trying to make things kind…
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Food for thought: how TV cooking shows influence the way we eat
Associate Professor of Sociology Alison Alkon spoke to The Guardian about how cooking shows have the potential to help people expand their culinary horizons.