When it comes to gentrification, Philadelphia baristas say they’re ‘part of the problem.’ But as low-wage workers, where else should they live and work?
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Their popularity can’t be explained by the nostalgia of baby boomers or superior sound quality. So what’s going on?
It’s easy to scorn the gentrifying hipster stereotype, but many inner-city neighbourhoods benefit from the distinctive mix of businesses and activities they pursue. So why should the suburbs miss out?
Hipsters exhibit a nostalgia for the past that echoes right-leaning political movements around the world.
Maboneng in Johannesburg represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”.
Over the past 30 years, capitalism has redefined the labour market – and with it, men.
From the 1960s, the backlash against inner-suburban clearances was led by the ‘trendies’.
It’s been a long, slow decline, so can anyone solve the Great British cuppa crisis?
New adult Ladybird books on The Hipster and The Husband fall flat.
What will the hipster come to symbolise about life in the early twenty-first century when historians of the future reflect on this era?
Gentrification is an immoral process - here’s why violent protest has a role to play in the fight against it.
In a bid to capitalise on the “artisanal” trend, fast food companies are craft-washing their mass produced products.
In contrast to a decade ago, there are currently more than 150 craft breweries in South Africa, many shipping their products around the country.
The creative industries are no replacement for the manufacturing sector.
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