we examine the implications of London’s successful Olympics bid for the communities of East London, with a special focus on the cultural turn in urban regeneration.
Hopeful or worried but not yet jumping for joy…: we listen to what people living in and around the Olympics site think about the bid campaign and the likely impact of the Games on their present and future lives…>>
Uneven development: David Powell, Consultant to London 2012 discusses the ins and outs of devising a cultural programme for the games. >>
Five questions about the future of East London: Geoff Mulgan, the director of the Young Foundation discusses economy, poverty, diversity, politics and people: the five pressing issues for London’s eastward turn. >>
The spatial logic of European Cultural Policy: In this keynote essay, Raymond Minichbauer examines the role which cultural policy plays in the shift to what he calls ‘Post Fordist’ regionalism…>>
A new orientalism? The Anglo-Gothic imagination in East London: Phil Cohen traces the influence of orientalism on the way writers and painters have imagined East London over the past two centuries. >>
Rich Mix in Brick Lane: Ashwani 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: Betty Nigianni, the winner of Rising East Online’s creative writing competition on the theme of ‘Downriver’. >>
Random Regenerator: Want to lose friends and fail to influence people? Think you could write task force reports in your sleep? Try our random regenerator game. >>
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Hopeful or worried but not yet jumping for joy…: we listen to what people living in and around the Olympics site think about the bid campaign and the likely impact of the Games on their present and future lives…>>
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