Dispersal: picturing urban change in east London

Davies, Marion, Davis, Juliet ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2056-5792 and Rapp, Debra 2017. Dispersal: picturing urban change in east London. Swindon: Historic England Publishing.

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Abstract

This book in concerned with the themes of representation and visibility in the contexts of planning and urban design for regeneration. It begins with a set of photographs documenting the spaces and people of industries occupying today’s 2012 Olympic site in East London at the time of its Compulsory Purchase in 2007. These pictures of a vanished place form the basis for re-exploring the area’s long underrepresented industrial and development history as a marginal place urbanising at London’s periphery from the nineteenth century. As the photos draw attention to the social life of a so-called industrial ‘wasteland’, they are also used to prompt questioning of where the industries went and how they fared following dispersal. This is addressed through a follow-up study involving photography, interviews and spatial analysis. It points to the on-going marginalisation and gradual disappearance of industry in the contexts of strategic planning and physical regeneration in East London.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Historic England Publishing
ISBN:	9781848023536
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 November 2017
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 09:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89159

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