The London East Research Institute conducts research and consultancy on issues of urban regeneration, focusing on the economic, social and cultural development of East London and the Thames Gateway. We aim to provide information, research and teaching resources that enable policy-makers, businesses and local communities understand the processes and impacts of development and thereby help optimise regeneration outcomes.
Date: Thursday 12th November 2009, 10am -12.30pm
Venue: East Thames Housing Office, 29-35 West Ham Lane, Stratford E15 4PH
Concerns about the potentially limited housing legacy of London 2012 have been vociferously articulated over the last three years. Initially concern focussed on the demolition of existing housing; the relocation of traveller sites and the potential gentrification of this area. Questions were also raised about the impact of rising house and rental prices on Stratford’s existing residents. Concern was also raised about what appeared to be a slowly diminishing commitment to affordable housing both as a proportion and in total numbers of the overall scheme? Would the area become another Canary Wharf characterised by social polarisation and exclusion?
However, the credit crunch has created real challenges for the potential housing legacy and as the private sector has increasingly withdrawn from the scheme, concern has shifted from gentrification to the possibility of the creation of ‘slum’ housing characterised by urban decline.
How then can we ensure that the athletes village becomes a place that is cutting edge? Embracing the best features of urban design and acts as an exemplar for urban regeneration projects more generally, attracting ‘mixed communities’ in terms of age, income and ethnicity, as reflected in the intial applications and ambitions for the project.
The London East Research Institute invites a range of stakeholders to attend a roundtable discussion to consider how this might be achieved.
Agreed keynote speakers include:
Penny Bernstock, Author, Regeneration Game, in Olympic Cities, Neighbourhood Watch
Dave Smith, Housing Advisor, London citizens
Ralph Luck, Director of Property, ODA
Michael Edwards, Bartlett School, UCL
Welcome and Introduction to the Evening Professor Gavin Poynter (Chair, LERI)
Presentation on Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London by Dr Iain MacRury (Director, LERI)
Presentation on East London Lives 2012 by Professor Andrew McDonald (Project Director, ELL2012), Gurdish Sandhu and Dr Mary Smith
Public Lecture: Professor Lamartine DaCosta, Chair: Professor Michael Rustin
Reception to follow
The London East Research Institute (LERI), the Library and Learning Services (LLS) and the Institute of Health and Human Development (IHHD) at the University of East London hosted a successful evening event on the theme of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This celebrated the launches of LERI’s latest book ‘Olympic Cities and the Remaking of London’ and the JISC funded ‘East London Lives 2012’ archive project. The evening ended with the London East Research Institute Public Lecture on Olympic legacy and mega events by Professor Lamartine DaCosta, of the Grupo Estudis Olympicos, Universidade Gama Filho, Brazil.
Professor DaCosta is Professor of the Masters and Doctorate Program in Physical Education, Gama Filho University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Guest Professor at the University of Sao Paul (Brazil) and coordinator of a joint research project on urban regeneration and sports mega events with LERI (UEL); Member of the Federal Council of Physical Education, Brazil; Consultant for research policy and grants of the federal Government and the State of Sao Paolo.
Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London is edited by Professor Gavin Poynter and Dr Iain MacRury, published by Ashgate Publishers, London. 2009 http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=9135&edition_id=10529&calcTitle=1
East London Lives 2012 is funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) as part of the Enriching Digital Resources programme, a strand of the digitisation programme
Museum of Docklands, No.1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London, E14 4AL http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/VisitUs/
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Brazil is developing an ambitious programme of sports megaevents. After the staging of the Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, the programme will continue with the hosting of the 2014 Football World Cup. The 12 host cities will have the support of the Federal Government of Brazil in building the necessary infrastructure to hold the event. In addition, Brazil will also host the 2016 Military Olympic Games and is a candidate for the 2016 Olympic Games or, if unsuccessful in that year, for the following ones.
In this highly favourable context for Brazilian sport, with all its environmental, social, economic, spatial and cultural implications, a new project of international research cooperation has been established.
The London East Research Institute (LERI) of the University of East London in the UK and the Architectural and Urban Technology Research Nucleus of the University of São Paulo (NUTAU/USP) in Brazil have set up a partnership to develop joint research into the socio-economic, cultural and environmental impacts of sports megaevents with a view to helping the public sector to plan, implement and manage the infrastructures necessary for such events, conceived as part of a project of urban regeneration in the context of a process of sustainable development
The agreement has been signed by Professor Gavin Poynter, Chair of LERI, on behalf of LERI, and by Professor Bruno Roberto Padovano, Scientific Coordinator of NUTAU/USP on behalf of NUTAU/USP.
The research will be coordinated by Dr. Iain MacRury, Alvaro de Miranda and Prof. Andrew Blake on behalf of LERI and by Professor Lamartine DaCosta on behalf NUTAU/USP.
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