The stakes are not purely material, though they are urgent in that register. When redevelopment arrives, it brings promised amenities: better sidewalks, storefront facelifts, a new park with engineered plantings. Those improvements matter. But the social fabric鈥攏eighbours who have known each other for decades, the informal childcare arrangements, the small salons and diners that act as civic spaces鈥攁re less easily quantified and far easier to break. The story of Isaidub is, in many ways, the story of how cities modernize without erasing who they already are.