http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2008/06/hampden-is-better-than-hon-fest/ Glossolalia, complaining and cycling. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2008/06/hampden-is-better-than-hon-fest/#comment-25417 Daily Breather Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:05:36 +0000 http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/?p=1396#comment-25417 Thanks for this post. I've only lived in Hampden 1 year now but feel closer to your side than the county. When I was looking at neighborhoods to move to in Baltimore I noticed just how geographically isolated Hampden was from the city. I thought that this may have played a big role in how it was able to be what it was/is: wierd and real. With Wyman park on one side and Jones falls/83/Druid Hill park on the other, with Roland Park up top and the parks coming together on the bottom the place just seemed isolated. On todays maps that says "safe" but I'm sure on yesterdays maps it said "isolated". And I came from the poor white working class of the Midwest so Hampden just makes sense to me. A lot of the city makes sense to me in that way. The thing I find sadly ironic is that as Hampden gentrifies it uses the legacy of the white working class to brand itself but in order to do this it has to push the existing white working class away so it can sell the idea to the rest of the world. Shameful. Nice post. Thanks for this post. I’ve only lived in Hampden 1 year now but feel closer to your side than the county. When I was looking at neighborhoods to move to in Baltimore I noticed just how geographically isolated Hampden was from the city. I thought that this may have played a big role in how it was able to be what it was/is: wierd and real. With Wyman park on one side and Jones falls/83/Druid Hill park on the other, with Roland Park up top and the parks coming together on the bottom the place just seemed isolated. On todays maps that says “safe” but I’m sure on yesterdays maps it said “isolated”. And I came from the poor white working class of the Midwest so Hampden just makes sense to me. A lot of the city makes sense to me in that way.
The thing I find sadly ironic is that as Hampden gentrifies it uses the legacy of the white working class to brand itself but in order to do this it has to push the existing white working class away so it can sell the idea to the rest of the world. Shameful.
Nice post.

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