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How many people here love a city- I mean fucking hard gay love- and is watching it lose its' character?

Man, I may just be a sentimental old bleeding heart but I can barely stand to look at the skyline anymore. It seems the mountains are being obscured more and more each day.
>> Anonymous
>>I'M SCARED OF CHANGE BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
fix'd. Same bunch of faggots scared of gentrification and development in EVERY city.
>> Anonymous
>>8248

0/10

>>8241
Sometimes it pains me to see old architecture get demolished to make way for shit buildings because they are "zOMG NEW!!!", but sometimes the new stuff is equally spectacular.
But I'd like a city to have some sort of living connection to it's past.
>> Anonymous
>>8248

I never said anything about how I feel about what's to come either way. Even if it turns out well, I'm going to miss the city as a I know it.

Maybe one day when you pay for your own things and set your own bedtime, you'll understand.
>> Anonymous
Bitches don't know about my property rights. Dont like someone demolishing a shitty old nigger-infetsed building? Buy it yourself nmd you deal with it.
>> Anonymous
>>8249

Yes, new architecture can be just as astounding as the old stuff but the identical townhouses, skyscrapers, and condos really get to me. But even then, they're usually in the high traffic areas so you can't appreciate them because you get a neck cramp looking up at it close and it's covered by advertising and generic buildings from afar. What I like is this edict they have in some large city- Sao Paulo I think- where they have a certain area and large advertisement is forbidden. It's a cool idea.
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>>8252

What, do I look like a Nintendo exec to you?
>> Anonymous
Dirty shame whats happened to New York.
>> BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Anonymous
Stop the White Corporate Mafia Takeover of A Black Cultural Center

Mis-education, institutionalized racism, economic underdevelopment, redlining, drugs, racial profiling, police terrorism, and the prevention and disruption of strong Black organizations and institutions are all part of the strategy to deny Africans in America freedom, justice and equality and the their human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Efforts to establish an African American Heritage Museum & Culture Center in Seattle began in 1969 and came to the forefront in 1981 when Omari Tahir-Garrett and Isaiah Edwards led a community based coalition in opposing the construction of a police precinct in the heart of Seattle's historically black Central District, proposing a positive cultural institution instead. After successfully blocking the construction of the police precinct, the community turned it's attention to the recently closed Colman school as the future home of the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center. When the mayor began to go back on his commitment to developing the museum, a dedicated few took action!.

On the night of Nov. 23, 1985, the longest recorded act of civil disobedience in U.S. history began when Omari Tahir, Earl Debnam and a small group of concerned community members including Charlie James, Michael Greenwood and others, occupied the abandoned Colman Elementary School, demanding that the building be developed into the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center to save our youth!.

Since that time Seattle's white corporate mafia has orchestrated an immoral and illegal campaign to sabotage, undermine and prevent the development of a community controlled institution and further the gentrification of the Central District using hired black faces such as Norm Rice, James Kelly and former FBI agent Carver Gayton to do their dirty work.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/calendar_event.php?eid=20080225231333755
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Las Vegas is losing it's charm faster than it knows what to do with the pieces. Literally, since all the remains sit littered in a junkyard.

What was only ten years ago this place that looked like it was designed by madmen, with all sorts of spectacles and goofy crazy shit made real everywhere you look, is stuff that The Powers That Be are now embarrassed about. Everything is about world-class luxury or nightlife. Places that tried to out-Disney the Disneys ripped out all their cool shit to try and turn the entire hotels into The World's Biggest Nightclubs. Everything is being built for guys with popped collars and gelled hair, and girls with skimpy outfits and fake boobs.

It's only going to get worse from here. The next generation of hotels are sleek glass towers that look just like the company HQ buildings at the commercial center of any large city's downtown.
>> Anonymous
>>8263

That's a damn shame. I never got to visit Vegas before all this.
>> Anonymous
At least Atlanta hasn't changed at all. Clermont Lounge, fuck yeah.
>> Anonymous
>>8265
Some of the cool stuff is still around. Some hotels will have a longer lifespan than others. I can't see when in the future NYNY will be blown up because then the terrorists win, after all.

The Luxor pyramid is the building currently being demolished from the inside out to appeal to hipsters with cash. Sad, but that's life.
>> Anonymous
>>8258

Funny thing, I've never actually been to New York so my mental image of the place is predominately of the 1930s flavour with all the tenements and Mom-n-Pop stores because of all the autobiographical comics I read. Jews love making comics.
>> Anonymous
I love my hometown of Chicago, but lately, it seems like they're turning more like England, and not in the good ways.

-They're banning everything past a spork that could be considered a 'weapon' (inner /k/ommando speaking)
-They banned foie gras (absolutely unconscionable, but it's my inner /ck/)
-Attempting to ban veal
-Putting up surveillance cameras every ten feet. Big brother Daley is watching you.
-Increased taxation of everything.
-Totally fucking up our public transit system (though this one can be more to blame on our governor than the mayor.)
>> Anonymous
Seattle is losing its charm so that Yuppies can have cookie cutter skyrise condos with frech bistros that open at 4pm. All of north d/t is being taken over by Paul Allen and converted into obscenely expensive lofts and studios. Pretty soon the whole business sector of Seattle will be moving to the suburbs
>> Anonymous
Ottawa.

And I hate the faggotry that goes on here, in terms of construction, and in terms of companies like that WiFi patent troll, Xandros, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>8263

fellow vegasfag here.

I know exactly what high rise glass buildings you're talking about. But the most dramatic gentrification is happening in the Downtown/Fremont area. On the upside, I don't have to worry so much about getting mugged anymore, but still, sometimes crackhead nigger whores make better company than yuppie trash.
>> Anonymous
i was a kid in the 80`s and lived in jersey. we went to nyc every few months and i would go with my older cousins every 3 weeks. i remember the nasty whore monger times square with the fat ass Jamaican selling dope from a Lucy ass booth in times square next to the porno shop that sold cp and had whores of all ages run out of it. i remember central park with the gangs and drug sellers and dog fights and murders . the burned out cars in the Bronx. i remember the Number one Ukrainian pimp selling you whatever you wanted out of his cousin antoly`s restaurant that nobody ever ate at. Giuliani might have cleaned it up and made it safe but goddamn i want my old new york back i really miss it.
>> Anonymous
>>8266

Yeah. Atlanta still as much "charm" as it ever did.

I saw a homeless guy dancing with his reflection in a window the other night. God bless drugs.
>> Anonymous
>>8582
I hate living in a donut city where nobody goes downtown because they don't want to be shot for being white. Artfags and hipsters are welcome, IMO. And since the Huntridge closed the indie concerts have to go somewhere, else our town becomes nothing but magicfacs and Cirque.