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"All fire escapes lead back to the same block in Sugar Hill, Harlem--where kids run through hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts When a new resident (the story's unnamed narrator) notices the trash polluting the picturesque streets and tainting his block's beauty, he is spurred into action. However, his best intentions go awry when the cleanup brings media coverage that, in turn, sets off a rash of evictions and an influx...
63) The exiles
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"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance." -- Container.
65) The lost village
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"The Lost Village is a devastating expose of how Greenwich Village, the epicenter of the counterculture in the 1960s and 70s, is being turned into a wasteland of chain stores, banks and multi-million dollar condos. This award-winning documentary follows filmmaker Roger Paradiso on a journey through today s Village as he tries to figure out how this gentrification on steroids got started. Talking to journalists, activists, shop-owners, professors and...
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"Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization...
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"Neighborhoods are moving. While offering opportunities for some, gentrification can be a vastly different experience for long-time residents and neighborhood churches. As a pastor who led his church through its own moved neighborhood in Portland, Mark Strong gives insight to churches that need to heal from the wounds of gentrification and revamp their mission amidst an uncertain future"--
70) Creation
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"A new mother takes us on a tour of Hamilton, a Rust Belt city born of the Industrial Revolution and dying a slow death due to globalization. This mother represents the city's next wave of inhabitants--the artists and young parents who swarm a run-down area for its affordability, inevitably reshaping the neighborhoods they take over. Creation looks at gentrification from the inside out--an artist mother making a home and neighborhood for her family,...
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A searing expose of the growing affordable housing crisis in America, this intimate documentary focuses on one of the country's most iconic and income divided zip codes. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving Black community, Venice is now the frontline for America's heated battles over gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and homelessness. Featuring interviews with leading politicians, local stakeholders, homeless advocates, and...
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Reddick es un joven pintor frustrado que vive en Brooklyn. A la espera de abrirse camino en el feroz mundo artístico neoyorquino, trabaja para una empresa que se dedica a montar exposiciones en las viviendas de la gente más acaudalada de Manhattan. Una gélida noche, en un callejón al lado de su casa, se encuentra a una desconocida con la que charla un rato antes de que ella desaparezca bruscamente. El descubrimiento de que se trata de la novia...
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"The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago began peacefully but quickly turned into what was later termed a "police riot." Brian Mullgardt's investigation of this event and the preceding tensions charts a complex social history that brings together Chicago history, the 1960's, and urbanization, focusing not on the national leaders, but on the grassroots activists of the time"--
"Police brutality, gentrification, and grassroots activism in...
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