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City Rising
Gentrification Is About Power: What’s Community Got to Do with It?
Despite the promises of revitalization and free market exchange for neighborhoods, gentrification is an invading force that has developed out of a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.

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Looking Forward, Not Back: How South Los Angeles is the Future
South L.A. has been a laboratory for holistic approaches that weave together concerns and communities. It may be one of the last best places to show the city as a whole how development can be done without displacement.

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Departures
Roots|Raíces: Shared Futures in South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles has always been a place of reinvention and there are a myriad of stories that complicate and challenge any monolithic rendering of this mega-neighborhood.

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Departures
A Vision for the Next Los Angeles: Transportation Equity and Just Growth
Los Angeles is in the midst of a reinvention of sorts: from sprawl to community development, from car dependence to transit orientation, from rising inequality to a growing commitment to equity and inclusion.