Financialization eats creative classes for breakfast. I suspect that is what is driving the destruction of the Kreuzberg and Neukölln districts. But the process is either facilitated or impeded by city governments. The cities like development fees, building fees, etc., but it might be nice if they gave some consideration to the long term impact of what they are permitting. But that flies in the fact of dogma that says "markets know best" and that economics is an autonomous sphere upon which evil government must not encroach.  The Kreuzberg and Neukölln districts of Berlin need candidates that will point all of this out, oppose the development and expose the real agendas (I suppose to be) at work.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."