Gentrification
FOOD FIGHT: Bao Bei presents problematic dining
October 18, 2016Bao Bei is a modern Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of Chinatown, an accessible 10-minute walk from Main Street SkyTrain Station. It’s critically acclaimed, but might make you bitter. Let me start by saying it is not student-budget friendly, but if you bring a couple friends to share dishes with, it is very well-worth a visit. It is a unique restaurant, as stated on its website — whether it be for the positives or the negatives. The signage and exterior are a blatant symbolic representation of Chinatown, but the moment you walk in, the ambience is startlingly Gastown. What made me…
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Vancouver isn’t boring
June 8, 2015A recent article published in The Economist describes Vancouver as “mind-numbingly boring.” The author, under the alias “Gulliver,” later states that the more “cities strive to become nicer places in which to live [. . . the] less interesting they…
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Shut Up and Listen: Gentrification of the Eastside
June 9, 2013Another thrilling episode of Shut Up and Listen, which explores the gentrification of Vancouver's downtown eastside. Written and hosted by Estefania Duran Created byJulian Giordano
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Gentrification: The Changing Demographic of the Downtown Eastside
July 1, 2012“Hey, do you like Earl’s?” asks a man with a ragged and unkempt appearance, offering me a $25 gift card to Earl’s that he had gotten while panhandling: he tells me how he had gone to an Earl’s restaurant to…
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