Submitted by Dilla, Dec 21, 2006 10:34

The pretenses that you base your ideas of "improvement" and "renaissance" on are suspect. This doesn't sound like progress to me, just more of the same. And doesn't the word "renaissance" imply something to do with art? The only people that could afford to inhabit these newly "developed" neighborhood are the ones that consume and commidify art, but don't produce it. When the walk-in botox shops start popping up and you can't buy a sandwich for less than 8 dollars is when we know the neighborhood's really got something going for it! Looks like theres no escaping the suburbs afterall, because the mindset of sorting ourselves along class lines is as american as self-congratulatory manifest destiny and thinly veiled polite racism. Thank you, kind developers for improving our neighborhoods out of the sheer goodness of your hearts...*borat* NOTTTT.

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