Artists who just want a space of their own may have difficulty with the idea that their own way of life might drive them and other people out of the neighborhood. This special feature includes links to many readings on the web, excerpts from Milwaukee’s Housing Strategy, a poem about Chicago’s Wicker Park Yuppification, and Gentrification Resistance Tools for Freak Bohemians.
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Gatherin’ Moss – Book Review and Interview with Andrew Stone
by Abigail Wolfe Abigail Wolfe: Why do you live in Riverwest? Andrew Stone: Riverwest is my place. It’s been good to me. I wouldn’t live anywhere else in Milwaukee — even if I could afford to. A. W.: Do you think Jim McNeil, the main character of your novel Gatherin’ Moss, would like Riverwest? Stone: […]
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Me on Gentrification
I moved up here in 1994 from a small town down south. Everyone back home in my hood looked the same. We all enjoyed the same things. Cheap apartments or shotgun shacks. New used cars. We dressed in Target and flea market wardrobes. Boring, but comfortable and familiar! Most of the well-to-do lived in communities […]
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CoHousing — An Alternative Way to Live
by Vince Bushell The following is a summary of a presentation given in Madison at the Friends Meeting House by Nick Meima on May 16. Meima lives in a Cohousing community in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and he also designs and helps develop new Cohousing communities. Madison has at least one Cohousing community with about 18 […]
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Cohousing — An Alternate Way to Live
The following is a summary of a presentation given in Madison at the Friends Meeting House by Nick Meima on May 16. Meima lives in a Cohousing community in Ann Arbor Michigan, and he also designs and helps develop new Cohousing communities. Madison has at least one Cohousing community with about 18 units in operation, […]
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