| Comment | Controversial (maybe)... The Barras is shite and has been absolute shite for decades. It looms larger in the imagination of the city than as an actual place worth visiting in any sense. It's a pretty embarrassing place all around. Gentrification is usually a prerogative term, but get the whole area gentrified to fuck: build more flats, open actual decent cafes and restaurants, incentivise real sellers and makers etc to move there. Keep the barras' heritage and what it represents, but build on it and make it fit for the 21st century, not a market full of carpet shops and bogging tit-tat. |
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