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The image here, along with your text frame-up a powerful sentiment that I often feel gets lost in the discursive gymnastics over gentrification, or pretty much most facets of Late Industrial Capitalism as we understand them now. Urban renewal is an example of the affordances neoliberal machinists grant educated progressives as they demand to live their lives under certain moral parameters.

This dual set of images encourages the view to consider how one maps gentrification projects. I am thinking of work by Lindsey Dillon on Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard and the "Breathers of Bayview Point" (see Dillon 2015, 2017, 2018) on gentrification and the toxicity of blowing apart "ruined" buildings to renovate them into something new. Dillon's work examines both the social toxicity as well as the radiactive particles that become airborne.