Urban redevelopment produced the derelict buildings that cheap avant-garde films documented

Evidence

Zimmerman, who learned his craft assisting Rice on The Flower Thief, would boast that Lemon Heart was produced for $50, provided by Mead’s cousin-by-marriage, the Broadway star Richard Kiley. On one hand the movie documents the construction sites and derelict Victorian houses produced by the “redevelopment” of San Francisco’s Western Addition, particularly Japantown and the largely African American Fillmore neighborhood. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instances the book’s core thesis about material conditions enabling avant-garde density — connects to the counterculture-as-market argument and to gentrification claims on the shelf.
• ADDENDUM: The ‘redevelopment’ producing derelict Victorian housing artists then occupied for free connects to the gentrification origin story in ‘Grafting & Growth’ and the broader infrastructure framing.