Remaking London
Subtitle: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781780763088
Subjects: Urban renewal; Architecture, great britain
Description: "Between the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified. Yet today, with a focus on increasing land values, regeneration schemes purporting to foster diverse and creative new neighbourhoods typically displace precisely the qualities, activities and communities they claim to support. In Remaking London Ben Campkin provides a lucid and stimulating historical account of urban regeneration, exploring how decline and renewal have been imagined and realised at different scales."