Houseboaters being ‘socially cleansed’ from Olympics area
River Lea residents fear licence could rise from £600 to £7,000, but British Waterways says increase only option. Houseboat residents near the Olympic development site in east London are accusing British Waterways of an attempt at “social cleansing”. They say proposed changes to rules for living on the canals before the 2012 Games could force hundreds of people from their water-based homes.
The story of how Britain’s industrial heartlands have been transformed, told on the basis of photographs secretly taken by the Luftwaffe in 1939 and images of 2008.
Britain from above – with Salford and Trafford Park in Manchester (on BBC iplayer)
The
Park Hill estate, Sheffield: Europe’s largest Grade 2 listed building
Park
Hill in Sheffield is a large council estate comprising 995 flats. The structure was inspired by the
famous architect Le Corbusier. Leading architectural and historic buildings expert Dan Cruickshank
shows us the structure and explains its history. We learn how each floor had broad aisles wide enough
for milk floats and how the complex also incorporated a primary school and shopping precinct.
Constructed of reinforced concrete combined with yellow, orange and red brick curtain walling, it
demonstrates ‘brutalist’ modernism on a European scale. The estate was initially very
popular and successful but decayed over time to become an inner city sink estate, described by some as
a ‘mugger’s paradise’ or ‘concrete prison’. (from BBC, learning
zone)
Following below’s link you can find a free version of Bruno Latour’s ‘Paris invisble’. According to his latest more theoretical book on actor network theory ‘reassembling the social – an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory’ (2007) this text should be the much lighter version … which tries to cover much of the same ground through a sucession of photographic essays. It is also much shorter then the introductory book
FutureStory: how people and businesses in towns and cities across the UK are adapting to – and succeeding in – the new global economy. Wherever you live, you can build your own FutureStory and upload and share it here.
A £10.8m grant will kickstart the £650m redevelopment of the historic heart of Salford, the North West Development Agency (NWDA) has said.
Yet another urban hirarchy table
Vancouver (Canada) continues to top the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global liveability survey. A score of 98% bodes well for visitors during the Winter Olympics this year. Conversely, as security concerns abound in Sub-Saharan Africa following the Africa Cup of Nations, Football World Cup host Johannesburg (South Africa) comes in joint 92nd place with a score of 69.1%. Nonetheless, this is still the highest score in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In this engaging and thought-provoking lecture, public intellectual and best-selling author, Richard Florida, explains how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy. Drawing from his research in his popular books The Rise of the Creative Class and, most recently, Who’s Your City? , Florida traces the rise of this new social class and its impact on cities, business, and society at large. Richard Florida is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
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