Kreuzberg Shedding

Berlin is a city where the freedom of expression on the streets is seen on the walls in the forms of graffiti, stencil works and stickers. Kreuzberg is a neighborhood that is dismissed for many years because of its proximity to the Berlin Wall, housing mostly bohemian and immigrant communities.

Over the past couple decades, people have poured into Berlin, attracted by its relative affordability, cultural wealth and anything-goes spirit. But now the city is trying to regulate what has elsewhere proved to be unstoppable: gentrification.

Once this process of gentrification starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed.

Shedding: CasaMagarola

Casa Magarola is a neoclassical building located in Barcelona's Raval district, designed by architect Joan Soler i Faneca in 1779. It was used as a home by Fèlix and Francesc Magarola and as a cotton fabric printing factory for several years.