There are signs that authorities are beginning to recognise and reverse the more damaging aspects of their placemaking policies, says Anna Minton.
Every year the University of East London’s Master of Research course in architecture, titled “Reading the Neoliberal City,” begins with a walk around the wider local area — and every year what we experience is substantially different.
From Cyprus we take the Docklands Light Railway into the heart of the original Docklands developments, to start to investigate the origins of its heavily contested story. We walk through the private estates at South Quay and pass what feel like endless hoardings for the new luxury developments which line the route to Canary Wharf, the privately owned, high security estate which in the 1980s pioneered “regeneration” — a “tabula rasa” model of development which saw former low-value industrial land repurposed as private space for investment, which would command high property prices and rents... Keep reading on Places Journal
Every year the University of East London’s Master of Research course in architecture, titled “Reading the Neoliberal City,” begins with a walk around the wider local area — and every year what we experience is substantially different.
From Cyprus we take the Docklands Light Railway into the heart of the original Docklands developments, to start to investigate the origins of its heavily contested story. We walk through the private estates at South Quay and pass what feel like endless hoardings for the new luxury developments which line the route to Canary Wharf, the privately owned, high security estate which in the 1980s pioneered “regeneration” — a “tabula rasa” model of development which saw former low-value industrial land repurposed as private space for investment, which would command high property prices and rents... Keep reading on Places Journal