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He goes, so do you really think there’s something redeeming about gentrification?
For the Community Banner Project, banners will be designed to carry a theme that reflects the recent history (1960s, 70s, 80s) of street life, retail activity and use of public space in the Downtown Eastside. As a working class retail street, it was not too long ago that retail activity along Hastings Street was far more vibrant than it is today. The banners are an attempt to remind us of this recent history and encourage us to think positively about the future.
(Newsletter of the Carnegie Community Action Project, 2001, p. 1)
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“As an involuntary explorer of the society, Marlowe visits either those places you don’t look at or those you can’t look at … those parts of the American scene which are as impersonal and seedy as public waiting rooms: run-down office buildings, the elevator with the spittoon and the elevator man sitting on a stool beside it … hotel rooms and lobbies, with the characteristic potted palms and over stuffed armchairs; rooming houses with managers who work illegal lines of business on the side. All these places are characterized by belonging to the mass, collective side of our society: places occupied by faceless people who leave no stamp of their personality behind them; in short, the dimension of the interchangeable, the inauthentic” (Jameson, 1983a, p. 128). “Room 332 was at the back of the building near the door to the fire escape. The corridor which led to it had a smell of old carpet and furniture oil and the drab anonymity of a thousand shabby lives. The sand bucket under the racked fire hose was full of cigarette and cigar stubs, an accumulation of several days. A radio pounded brassy music through an open transom. Through another transom people were laughing fit to kill themselves” (Chandler, 1971, p. 52).
In an essay on Raymond Chandler, Jameson speaks of the North American distinction between federal and municipal politics (1983a, p. 130).
Tsui Hark (dir) Time and Tide (Hong Kong, ZUU1).
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Burnham, C. (2004). Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture, and Vancouver. In: Homer, S., Kellner, D. (eds) Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523524_4
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