Carrying the torch, by Phil Cohen: Counting our mixed blessings (and metaphors) before they are hatched. >>
Can we save Queen’s Market from yet another superstore?, by Louise Ford: The multicultural bustling bazaar that is Queen’s Market in Upton Park is under threat from redevelopment plans. Louise Ford talks to the campaigners who are trying to save it. >>
Random Regenerator: Too bored to think of a confusing, but seemingly meaningful phrase for that important report? Then try the Random Regenerator. >>
Jinx Cartoon: ‘Creative Class 2005’. >>
Lead story:
Hopeful or worried but not yet jumping for joy…, by : Some emergent themes from a pilot study of the London 2012 bid. >>
Keynote essay:
The spatial logic of European Cultural Policy, by Exploration of the cultural turn in EU regional policy and its relation to Post Fordism. >>
A new orientalism? The Anglo-Gothic imagination in East London, by : Some reflections on the Gothic Revival in East End Literature. >>
Rich Mix in Brick Lane, by Ash Sharma explores the cultural and political geography of Brick Lane and locates the Rich Mix arts centre, due to open there in summer 2006. >>
About a pair of shoes and other stories along the river, by The winner of Rising East Online’s creative writing competition, which was on the theme of ‘Downriver’. >>
Five questions about the future of East London, by : The director of the Institute of Community Studies discusses economy, poverty, diversity, politics and people: the five pressing issues for London’s eastward turn. >>
New Labour is Non-Labour, by Andrew Calcutt: From Labour to Culture: Andrew Calcutt correlates the new emphasis on culture with the demise of organised labour. >>
Destination East London: brand it and they will come, by Karina Burzins: On the promises and pitfalls of tourism-led regeneration. >>
Uneven development, by David Powell: Culture and Complexity: David Powell accentuates the pragmatic and the particular in cultural planning, policy and development. >>
Model London Citizens, by Reverend Angus Ritchie: How one community group shows how local people can get things done, without selling out. What lessons for the Olympic bid? >>
A Rich Mix of ideas, by Munira Mirza: Keith Khan, chief executive of Rich Mix, talks to Munira Mirza about art, participation and the absence of a ‘common culture’. >>
Captain Nemesis Calling: Quality of collaboration is fundamental to good regeneration because no single interest can ‘lead’. >>
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