Three years after its inception, the Wynwood Walls project in Miami that brings internationally recognized street artists to paint murals on a former shoe warehouse has catalyzed a complete revitalization of the neighborhood, drawing tens of thousands of visitors each month to the new businesses, galleries, and restaurants that have been established on the formerly blighted industrial streets. Yet even if this gentrification did not displace any residents and has created numerous new jobs, its story, as the Atlantic reports, “calls to mind all the uneasy and uncomfortable truths about the ways cities change over time.”
Source: www.blogs.artinfo.com
