A major new book on the development of the Thames Gateway plan – the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the UK – was launched at the Museum in Docklands on Thursday 12 June.
Rt. Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, was among the key speakers celebrating the launch of London’s Turning: The Making of Thames Gateway (Ashgate, 2008). The other speakers were, Prof. Michael Rustin (UEL), Prof. Chris Hamnett (KCL), Michael Edwards (UCL), Prof. Michael Keith (Goldsmiths), and Dr. Iain MacRury (Director of London East Research Institute (LERI).
The book, a collection edited by Professor Philip Cohen and Professor Michael Rustin, includes contributions from academics from a number of institutions in the UK and abroad and reports on research conducted by the London East Research Institute, based at the University of East London (UEL) Docklands campus.
London’s Turning provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the plan, which it also uses as a lens through which to examine important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice.
LERI Director, Dr. Iain MacRury said: 'We were very grateful to Yvette for giving up time from her busy schedule to come and talk about some of the themes in the book and LERI's research. One of the aims driving LERI’s work is to bring academic thinking into dialogue with political processes.Lively discussions during and after the event allowed that to happen".
The event was followed by a reception and refreshments.
Iain MacRury, Yvette Cooper, Mike Rustin, Chris Hamnett, Michael Keith and Michael Edwards take questions
Iain MacRury and Yvette Cooper
Eric Sorenson, Chief Exec. of TGLP asks panel a question
Dr. Iain MacRury, Rt. Hon. Yvette Cooper MP and Prof. Michael Rustin after the panel
More about the book: London's Turning: The Making of Thames Gateway
Philip Cohen and Michael J. Rustin (Eds). 2008 London: Ashgate Publications.
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.
Editorial introduction, Philip Cohen and Michael J. Rustin
Part 1 Big Pictures, Small Details: Ex-ports: the laboratory role of London's docklands
Han Meyer; Smokestack: the industrial history of Thames Gateway
John Marriott; 120 years of regeneration, from East London to the Thames Gateway: fluctuations of housing type and city form
William Mann; Daring to plan? Concepts and models of urban regeneration in Thames Gateway
Michael Keith; Thames Gateway oxymorons: some reflections on 'sustainable communities' and neoliberal governance
Massimo De Angelis; Forcing the market, forging community: culture as social construction in the Thames gateway
Andrew Calcutt; Stuff happens: telling the story and doing the business in the making of Thames Gateway.
Part 2: Case Studies in Urban Change: City to sea: some socio-demographic impacts of change in East London,
Tim Butler, Chris Hamnett, Mark Ramsden and Sadiq Mir; Moving to a better place? Geographies of aspiration and anxiety in the Thames Gateway
Paul Watt; Homing in on housing
Penny Bernstock; 'Alright on the night'? Envisioning a 'night time economy' in the Thames Gateway
Karina Berzins and Iain MacRury; From bedsit-land to 'cultural hub': re-generating Southend-on-Sea
Gareth Millington; The Thames Gateway bridge: a new 'solution' to an old problem?
Andrew Blake; The airport next door; London City airport – regeneration, communities and networks
Iain MacRury; Involving local communities in the Thames Gateway developments
Alice Sampson; Blues sky over Bluewater?
Michael Edwards; After London's turning: prospects and legacies for Thames Gateway
Philip Cohen and Miichael J.Rustin; Index
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