These Disturbing Dioramas Capture The Fight Over Google Buses In San Francisco

The tech company shuttle buses are a symbol of the gentrification sweeping the city. These scenes, set inside a laptop, capture the tension of the recent protests.

San Francisco is in a state of flux. The cost of living is rising dramatically, a new influx of highly-paid tech workers seems to arrive every day, and beloved long-time businesses are shutting down left and right, quickly replaced by pricey restaurants. The most public symbols of these changes is the tech shuttle bus--the gleaming, tinted window vehicles that ferry employees of companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook to their jobs. These buses, which use the city's public bus stops, have been the subject of protests in recent months as flash points of the changes sweeping the city.

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