[London and the North] When I had a look at some New Urban Theory web sites I was reminded of a module I did on social policy way back in the late seventies when doing a sociology degree at a polytechnic in East London.
[Feathers of Hope (Pica)] When I was growing up, the area was fields of thistles, parched in summer and a good place for madrileņos to dump their old mattresses and whatnot. Now there are high rises.
New urban places in post-industrial England? often fall prey to the 'dereliction of regeneration'. They are created with high hopes and usually not quite as much regneration funding as would be ideal. They are created by removing those who lived there or had a connection there before. The new space that is created is assumed to be one that 'the community' (who they? - certianly not the planners, who live in nice rural villages far away) will 'take care of', with no funding or training to do so. Unsurprisingly; after a few years the nice wooden fences start to rot, the weeds sprout, the broken bottles are not swept up, graffiti appears, etc etc. A bit like Ecotone and the Chinese wiki-spammers, I guess :)
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