I was thinking the same thing last night, that gentrification and docudrama were terms that were coined or at least came into vogue in the 80's.
Chances are that the only demolition of homes taking place in Northwest Portland in the late 1970's was due to the expansion of Good Samaratin Hospital or some sort of industrial warehouse.
As I remember it, the only "gentrification" going on in Portland at the time was happening on the outskirts of the city. The gentrification of farm lands and duck and beaver ponds by malls, housing developments and freeways.
I like your idea for a book on the subject. I had no luck finding a link to "Ninteenth Street" a great book full of photos and essays on the history of Victorian era Northwest Portland. My memories as an adolescent exploring the enormous and abandond St. Vincents Hospital which stood on the hill overlooking the neighborhood are enough for a large chaptor of such a book. It was a terrifying and dangerous place which stood empty and accessable for 20 years.
He is something on gentrification in the UK. It looks like much of it dates from Thatcher's time.
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Chances are that the only demolition of homes taking place in Northwest Portland in the late 1970's was due to the expansion of Good Samaratin Hospital or some sort of industrial warehouse.
As I remember it, the only "gentrification" going on in Portland at the time was happening on the outskirts of the city. The gentrification of farm lands and duck and beaver ponds by malls, housing developments and freeways.
I like your idea for a book on the subject. I had no luck finding a link to "Ninteenth Street" a great book full of photos and essays on the history of Victorian era Northwest Portland. My memories as an adolescent exploring the enormous and abandond St. Vincents Hospital which stood on the hill overlooking the neighborhood are enough for a large chaptor of such a book. It was a terrifying and dangerous place which stood empty and accessable for 20 years.
- steve 1-12-2002 8:56 pm
He is something on gentrification in the UK. It looks like much of it dates from Thatcher's time.
- bill 1-12-2002 9:09 pm [add a comment]