HONG KONG – Heritage Heroes Part Three is the third, and last, part of a documentary on residents fighting to save Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and historic buildings from neglect and, eventual, demolition by local government and property development companies…
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Hong Kong’s Heritage Heroes – Part Three
Tagged with: #Conservation, Architecture, documentary, gentrification, Heritage, Hong Kong
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Hong Kong’s Heritage Heroes – Part Two
HONG KONG – Heritage Heroes Part Two is the second part of a documentary on residents fighting to save Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and historic buildings from neglect and, eventual, demolition by local government and property development companies in the…
Hong Kong’s Heritage Heroes – Part One
HONG KONG – Heritage Heroes Part One is the first part of a documentary on residents fighting to save Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and historic buildings from neglect and, eventual, demolition by local government and property development companies in the…
Montréal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city (redux)
Montreal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city. Montréal: histoire de la gentrification d’une ville bohème. This 80 minute documentary examines the rapid push for condo development in Montréal. Residents speak about how this development is having an effect in…
Kenya Slum Upgrading Project in Kibera
Featuring Kibera residents Godwin Oyindo, 24, Hilda Olali, 49, and Justus Ongera, 24.
Tagged with: gentrification, housing project, KENSUP, kenya, Kibera, nairobi, Project, settlement, Slum Upgrading, Soweto East, UN Habitat
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South African documentary filmmaker talks gentrification in JoBurg
South African documentary filmmaker, Arya Laloo, talks about gentrification in her Johannesburg district, Jeppestown. Laloo is co-director of the 2013 film Jeppe on a Friday. Named one of the best African films of 2013 by the U.K. Guardian newspaper.
Tagged with: Arya Laloo, gentrification, interview, Jeppe on a Friday, jeppestown, JoBurg, Johannesburg, Jozi, radio
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A portrait of gentrification in Johannesburg
The mean streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, put fear into the hearts of the most hardened. But a Canadian documentary filmmaker brushes off how she was once carjacked at gunpoint as if it were like being stuck in traffic on…
Tagged with: Arya Laloo, gentrification, jeppestown, Johannesburg, montreal, Montreal Gazette, Neil Fraser, Parabola Films, Sarah Spring, Shannon Walsh, South Africa, The Gazette, Urban Inc.
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#Johannesburg, South Africa: A #World Class #African #City ?
A marketing campaign claiming Johannesburg as “A World Class African City” has been deemed “misleading” by the South African Advertising Standards Authority. Long-time urban consultant Neil Fraser (Urban Inc.) reflects on the 30-plus years of work he’s put into this…
Tagged with: A World Class African City, advertising, Apartheid, gentrification, Johannesburg, Neil Fraser, South Africa, urban consultant, Urban Inc.
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Jeppe on a Friday – a #radio doc about a #film doc in #SouthAfrica
Synopsis: Jeppe on a Friday is a 2013 South African documentary film about gentrification in Jeppestown, a low-income district in Johannesburg in the midst of re-development. This radio documentary examines the collaborative process used by Canadian filmmaker Shannon Walsh in cinema…
Tagged with: Arya Laloo, cinema verite, documentary, film, gentrification, Jeppe on a Friday, jeppestown, Johannesburg, Neil Frasier, Shannon Walsh, South Africa
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