University of Missouri-St. Louis researchers connected with students in the Ruhr area of Germany to get a sense of how gentrification manifests in post-industrial cities like St. Louis.
They submitted their final presentation, to the intercultural student project, 鈥淔uture of My City,鈥� and they recently won first place in the initiative's competition.
On Monday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air, UMSL graduate student Adam Brown and doctoral student Liz Deichmann talked about the findings of their study, including the ways Dortmund, Germany, has implemented practices that mitigate the issues of gentrification, like the displacement of low-income residents by the more affluent.
Hear their conversation with host Sarah Fenske:
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