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Interesting article in this evenings Standard http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/richard-godwin-cupcakes-have-eate...
"You may say cupcakification of Hoxton is inevitable: Deptford or Tottenham will emerge as London’s new creative heart, talent will rise. Maybe. But just now, with under-25s prevented from claiming JSA, a refusal to regulate the rental market, a box-ticking arts bureaucracy, an asset-sweating corporate culture and a utilitarian view of education, I’m not sure we can take that for granted.
To put it another way, if artists are the shock troops of gentrification, then nine-course tasting menus are the infantry and luxury gated developments the heavy artillery. When the war is won, they will build a triumphal Gail’s Bakery in the Shoreditch Box Park and the kids will clear out for good".
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Interesting. Reminds me of an article I posted 4 years ago (eek) about research from the States that suggested that the state of your bakeries was a better indicator of an area's fortunes than crime maps or house prices.
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