Interview: Ali, Zoe, and the Gentrification Debate
Meet Ali and Zoe.
You may have heard of them. Zoe takes pictures of Ali while walking down the street and posts
them on her tumblr called What Ali Wore. They share a
special connection, one reflective of a city in flux and a district in crisis. He, the
assumed-Gastarbeiter (politically-charged term for 'guest worker') fighting against
stereotypes and categorizations since arrival // she, the ex-pat fighting off armies of
criticism for displacing the very people one considers a neighbor: difficult situations that
have arisen not out of malice but out of circumstance, no matter the scale...
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