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By highasageorgiapine (registered) | Posted July 06, 2015 at 10:28:30

the essay that has been posted throughout the downtown core has many false assumptions and is pretty extreme (i.e. bad), but saying the development in the core has been "overwhelmingly positive for all of us" is disingenuous at best. making poor analogies to dinner parties, writing dismissive platitudes, and reading off press releases doesn't really make for a great response either.

there is a big problem with many of the urbanists in this city, and it's exemplified in articles like this. it's the idea that any opposition to development is a "threat of revitalization," as though individuals who mention "hey, maybe gentrification could create problems if we don't think this through" are crazies out of touch with reality.

the essay you read speaks to the reality of many urban people living in this city. development in hamilton is quickly becoming a tide that only raises some ships, as increases in cost of living in the core are pushing many people who have lived here away from the city. when people talk of revitalization of the city, they talk of a few streets or specific building projects in increasingly unaffordable neighborhoods, ignoring the huge swaths of the city that are underdeveloped and continue to be neglected. it's nice that the affluent urbanists "can do anything in hamilton" like their shirts state, but for many working class and middle class individuals and families that is becoming increasingly not true.

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