How Artists Drive Gentrification and Political Issues
and cultural facilities (Cameron and Coaffee, 2006). Matthews (2010) likewise calls the incorporate of art into public policy as third wave gentrification. Barcelona's Hangar Collective is unique in that it represents all three stages or types of gentrification: first, second, and third stages. As Pallares-Barbera, Dot, and Casellas (2012) point out, public outcries over the potential commodification and commercialization of the Hangar Collective led to top-down municipal policies that helped to retain the artist-only community concept. Not only did public funds help to resist corporate injections of finance… Continue Reading...
