This month the urban plan for Nova Luz was presented. The plan encompasses the transformation of a large area (45 urban blocks, occupying 50 ha) close to the Luz railway station in central São Paulo. In the last decade, preparations for this plan have been made by the Municipality, including the construction of concert hall [...]
In 2004, the city of Maastricht approved the Belvédère master plan, concerning the grand scale redevelopment of an old industrial area, at the fringe of the old city center. The site is characterized by the old Sphinx factory (porcelain and ceramic products), as well as the central dock, where ships used to unload raw materials [...]
Soho, near the central district of Hong Kong Island, is a dynamic urban area full of restaurants, shops and nightlife. The traditional hill-side neighborhood stretches more or less from the lower Queens Road Central until Robinson Road at the top, having the busy Hollywood Road in the mid level. In the early nineties the Central-Mid-Levels [...]
The central part of the city of Hong Kong lies on both sides of Victoria Harbour, on Hong Kong Island in the south, and the peninsula of Kowloon in the north. Kowloon still has traditional neighborhoods with lots of street markets and high-density urban blocks. The area of Mong Kok, in the middle of Kowloon, [...]
Hip hop artist Dregs One discusses the gentrification process in his neighborhood in San Francisco:
