Tourism, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change

An interesting look at the role tourists can play in gentrification, especially in a tourism-dependent city like Berlin.

Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood is famous as being a home of alternative lifestyles and immigrants. But the locals' reputation for tolerance is being put to the test by an influx of tourists. Middle-class residents are up in arms about night-time noise and rising rents.

Der Spiegel, March 7, 2011.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,749470,00.html