Gentrification

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers on depicting changes to a London market, a new report into prosperity and New Generation Thinker Alastair Fraser from the University of Glasgow shares his research .

At the Stranger's Gate by Adam Gopnik, a staff writer for the New Yorker, is a memoir recalling 1980s New York and the early years of his marriage.

Lucinda Rogers: On Gentrification Drawings from Ridley Road Market is on display at the House of Illustration in London until March 25th 2018.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:23.3	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music
0:27.0	when it's out of ice cream.
0:28.8	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.0	Hello, I'm Shahid Abari,
0:33.5	and welcome to the Arts and Ideas podcast for BBC Radio 3.
0:38.3	This is the BBC.
0:40.3	Hello.
0:43.3	New York, New York, a wonderful town.
0:47.3	The Bronx is up and the battery's down.
0:49.3	The people ride in a hole in the ground.
0:51.3	New York, New York, it's a wonderful town.
0:56.7	Leonard Bernstein's anthem to the city offers some very basic directions.
1:00.8	But how do you really get to know a place and its people, whether it be New York, London or Glasgow?
1:06.3	In today's program, we lose ourselves in cities.
1:09.3	In the artistic endeavours they encourage and the housing
1:12.1	crises they harbour, looking at the street markets that foster communities and examining the gang
1:17.0	violence that divides them. And with the rankings of the Global Lagarton Prosperity Index released
1:22.1	earlier today, we'll be thinking about how the quantitative measures of wellbeing stack up against
1:27.0	the qualities of
1:27.8	city life. If you need to find your bearings, well, we'll be starting out in a Bijou basement
1:32.3	apartment on New York's Upper East Side in the 1980s before heading out to Doolston, a cluttered
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