Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London by Anna Minton, Alberto Duman, Malcolm James, Dan Hancox
English | September 20th, 2018 | ISBN: 1912248239 | 630 Pages | EPUB | 18.74 MB
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an "Arc of Opportunity" for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. This proposal was outlined in a short film, London's Regeneration Supernova, and shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.