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Comment author: ChristianKl 27 January 2016 02:14:46PM 0 points [-]

I think Seattle's South Lake Union development, kickstarted by Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos, is a counter example ...

No, it's not in California. In California a city like Mountain View blocks a company like Google from building new infrastructure on it's edges.

Perhaps gentrification is a more general counter example.

In what sense? Gentrification simply means that rents go up in certain parts of the city. It doesn't have directly something to do with new investments.

Comment author: Lumifer 27 January 2016 03:43:26PM 1 point [-]

Gentrification simply means that rents go up in certain parts of the city.

Not at all. Gentrification is the replacement of a social class by a different social class. There are a LOT of consequences to that -- the character of the neighbourhood changes greatly.

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