Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
On the Boxpark Reckoning, and What It Means When the Pop-Up That Was Going to Save Shoreditch Becomes the Thing That Needs Saving
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the strange middle age of the shipping-container retail mall, the curious half-life of the word disruptive, and the question of what comes…
The Tech Startup in the Old Brewery Is Hiring and I Have Thoughts About What It Is Hiring For
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the Silicon Roundabout Economy, the Job Listings That Line Her Walk to the Tube, and What It All Actually Means Reported by…
Brick Lane on a Sunday Is a Referendum on What London Is and I Vote Yes With Reservations
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the Market, the Bagels, the Tourists, the Residents, and the Specific Democracy of a Street That Contains Everything Simultaneously Reported by Bohiney…
The Art Gallery Closed and a Gym Opened and I Am Not Handling This Maturely
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the Shoreditch Creative Economy, What Happens When a Neighbourhood’s Art Infrastructure Loses to Its Wellness Infrastructure, and Personal Growth Reported by Bohiney…
My Neighbours Are Four People in a Two-Bedroom Flat Paying the Same Rent I Pay for My One-Bedroom and This Bothers Me
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Shoreditch Housing, the People Who Make the Neighbourhood Work, and the Economics of Living Where You Actually Want to Live Reported by…
Shoreditch Has Become a Theme Park of Itself and I Live Here So That Is My Problem
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the Specific Melancholy of Watching Your Neighbourhood Become Its Own Parody While You Pay Rent in It Reported by Bohiney Magazine and…
The Shoreditch Planning Committee Meeting and the Specific Experience of Democratic Participation at Its Most Local
The Residents Who Attended the Committee Meeting About the Development Application Are the Specific Democracy That Planning Requires From Bohiney and The London Prat. By…
The Shoreditch Street Art Conservation Question Has Finally Been Asked by Someone With the Authority to Ask It
Historic England Has Published Guidance on Street Art Conservation and Shoreditch Is the Test Case From Bohiney and The London Prat. By Cyndi Himmelstiere |…
The Shoreditch Gentrification Debate Is Twenty Years Old and Has Not Produced a Resolution
The Conversation About Who Shoreditch Is For Has Been Running Since Before the Area Was Called Tech City From Bohiney and The London Prat. By…
The Shoreditch Coffee Shop Has Become Its Own Distinct Cultural Institution
The Independent Coffee Shop of E1 and EC2 Is Neither Starbucks Nor Your Grandmother’s Cafe; It Is Something Else From Bohiney and The London Prat….
