The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
by Stephen Fry · 27 Sep 2010 · 487pp · 132,252 words
that was coming. The process of gentrification that was already beginning to remodel the seedier parts of Islington and Fulham was being contemptuously described as ‘croissantification’ by those alarmed at the incoming tide. The Falklands Conflict had transformed Margaret Thatcher from the least popular prime minister in fifty years to the
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
one highly successful new chain mass markets croissants,” is how one critic put it back in 1985. “The change has created a new vocabulary: Yuppification, croissantification, Manhattanization.”22 Techies and tech startups are just the latest players in a much longer running battle over urban space. That said, the incredible wealth