30th September 2013 - The Glasgow Guardian



Gentrification of Berlin

30th September 2013

Franchesca Hashemi Twenty-four years ago Berlin had a reputation of division and social inequality.  It is now 2013, and these obstacles still exist. The term gentrification gets bandied about Berlin as often as ‘mad wae it’ does in Glasgow – but what does this word literally mean? Generally speaking it’s the rapid increase in popularity ...