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The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of
urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. Not since
the Great Fire of London will the capital city have been subject to
such an enormous and concentrated process of change as what is
currently being proposed: the building of affordable homes for half
a million people on a flood plain, the construction of a new
transport network to attract investment from across Europe and
around the world, the creation of a whole new apparatus of
governance to regulate London's historic Eastwards expansion, and
the attempt to create a sustainable green environment out of some
of the most polluted brownfield sites in the country. And, over and
above all this, the location of London's 2012 Olympics.All this is
being proposed against the background of widespread public sceptism
about master plans and grand projects, coupled with concerns about
the impact of global warming on London's flood protection systems
and the fear that market led construction of mass housing will lead
to Los Angeles style urban sprawl.This book provides a
comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but
at the same time, it uses the plan as a lens through which to look
at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy
and governmental practice. It examines the impact of urban planning
and demographic change on East London's material and social
environment, including new forms of ethnic gentrification, the
development of the eastern hinterlands, shifting patterns of
migration between city and country, the role of new policies in
regulating housing provision and the attempt to create new cultural
hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of governance and
accountability, the tension between public and private interests,
and the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway
project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of
new forms of regionalism.
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of
urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book
provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames
Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens
through which to look at a series of important questions of social
theory, urban policy and governmental practice. It examines the
impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's
material and social environment, including new forms of ethnic
gentrification, the development of the eastern hinterlands,
shifting patterns of migration between city and country, the role
of new policies in regulating housing provision and the attempt to
create new cultural hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of
governance and accountability, the tension between public and
private interests, and the immediate and longer term prospects for
the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics
effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.
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