Gentrification in NYC

“Over a decade of citywide rezonings, land speculations, and corporate bidding wars for available commercial space has produced a Darwinian habitat where corporate retail proliferates, and where mom-and-pops have become an endangered species.”

Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

Post your opinion on Alessandro Busà’s sentence, considering the Gentrification discussion we had in our last class. Your comment may be private, if you prefer.