Boxpark claims to be authentic street food experience but is actually luxury shopping mall disguised as market
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat
Boxpark Shoreditch – Harper on Authentic Inauthenticity
Boxpark is designed to feel like authentic street food but is actually a shopping mall for wealthy people paying premium prices for casual experience. See Harper-Thames’ analysis.
This is the current form of gentrification: manufacturing authenticity for consumption by people who can afford it.
I watched people queue to pay £18 for street food that costs £5 elsewhere. The experience was the product.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
