The Capitalist City or the Self-managed City

Posted on July 19, 2004, filed Under Housing & Urban Issues. Leave a Comment

by Tom Wetzel

from Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, edited by David Solnit (City Lights Press, 2004).

Patterns of capital flows have a visible effect on working class communities in the United States. Some communities see closed plants, abandoned stores, boarded-up dwellings, scarce jobs. Such are signs of disinvestment. Capital has moved to some other site in the global production line.

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What is gentrification?

Posted on January 7, 2004, filed Under Housing & Urban Issues. Leave a Comment

© 2004 Tom Wetzel

The patterns of capital flows have a
visible effect on working class communities
in the United States. Some communities see
de-industrialization, abandoned stores,
boarded-up dwellings, scarce jobs. Such are
signs of disinvestment. Capital has moved
elsewhere.

Read more