The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

From Tribeca to Triburbia
ment that we would no longer be able to afford the Triburbia we helped gentrify.
We early gentrifiers underestimated the voracious and cunning nature
of financial capital as it moves from one site of “underdevelopment” to another.
But more important, it reminds us that although people immigrate
to the city because it is seemingly a space of social, economic, and cultural
fluidity, increasingly this space, like our contemporary political system, is
more about segregation and lack of access.