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Frontpage made with Lay Theme© Alexandre Kurek — Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, 2019New Artist051 — Max Zerrahn«Cities are difficult. And great. Ideally they offer room and opportunity for people of different cultures, interests and orientations to find their niche and community; a thing that can be difficult to achieve in more rural areas. On the other hand they are too expensive, too polluted, too dense, too fucked up in many places. Either way [...] I would never not want to live in a big city.»Max ZerrahnTokyo051JPNNew EditorialsAll Things are Possible — Part IEssayJason Bruner2 minThe City — A Living and Breathing Organism EssayAlexandre Kurek3 minA short story about a bike courierProseMihai Moldovanu9 minFeatured Publication

Volker Heinze — Mapping Hong Kong’s Bet on Greed

In 2016 Hong Kong was selected for the sixth time in a row as the world’s «freest economy» by America’s Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. «Hong Kong’s Bet on Greed» describes this neo-liberal «field trial» as a proxy for the PRC’s future interests in Asia. In six densely composed sections of images—from Heart of Gold to Dystopian Confusion—Volker Heinze recounts «the Chinese gamble on greed», which features rapid growth and highlights the gap separating rich and poor.

Spector BooksLeipzigspectorbooks.comGERSpotlightCommunity Round-UpYou want to be featured in our weekly Instagram round-up?Simply hashtag your work to have it appear in our feed — 10 posts by 10 artists will be shown every Monday.Explore: #allcitiesarebeautiful [128k+]Focusing on one street and its inhabitants over a three-year period, «The Street» charts the toxic collision of gentrification, austerity and the nation’s slide into Brexit.

As the glinting steel and mirror-glass skyscrapers of London’s financial hub have edged ever closer, the area surrounding Hoxton Street has been transformed by hyper-gentrification and sky-high property prices. A traditional East London street less than a mile from the City of London — it has now become the last bastion of the areas disadvantaged — a concentration of the aged, poor and dispossessed.Hoxton Street’s close-knit working-class community has absorbed waves of immigrants since the 1950’s. But as traditional industry has withered, the latest influx of young urban hipsters followed closely by expensive restaurants, digital media start-ups and corporate property developers has brought with it a deepening sense of inequality.Sensing they have been left out of the changes swirling around them, the street’s ageing white residents, who lament the loss of their jobs and former ways of life, mirror the 52% of Britons who voted to leave the EU.Set against the upheavals of rapid gentrification and unrestrained capitalism, years of austerity, the fallout from Grenfell and the eruption of Brexit, the film is a revealing portrait of life in London today.*For up-coming screenings, see the film's website: thestreetfilm.co.uk/Podcasts & PlaylistsInstagram→ Subscribe the Newslettermade with Lay Theme

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