Sustainability in East London and the Thames Gateway
A cornucopia of contributors respond to questions such as: What is sustainability? What does it mean for urban regeneration? Who needs it, what should we do for it, and what can it do for us in the Thames Gateway and beyond? Plus analysis and comment on the road to London 2012; reportage on the Gateway and its human traffic.
Professor Han Meyer (Holland) and Professor James Woudhuysen (UK) scrutinise ‘sustainability’ as a concept and in its application to urban regeneration in the Thames Gateway and beyond.
Environmentalist Patrick Wilson, and Jenny Jones (Green Group, London Assembly) commend sustainability as an organising principle that can only benefit the Thames Gateway. Ian Abley (architect) and Vicky Richardson (journalist) beg to differ.
Incoming editor Andrew Calcutt proposes Rising East as a much-needed platform for public debate about the Thames Gateway region and its international relations.
And much more…
Views expressed in Rising East are not those of the University of East London, nor of the London East Research Institute. Since Rising East is a platform for debate, to endorse every view expressed here would be impossible.
Rising East combines analysis and scholarly work with reportage, comment, reviews, interviews and illustration.
Editor: Andrew Calcutt
Editor at Large: Phil Cohen
Web developer: Alex Logvynovskiy
Photography: Lennie Pothecary and Steve George
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Professor Han Meyer on sustaining the port-city: ‘In every phase of modernisation the city and the port have sought a new balance. In the current phase, at the beginning of the 21st century, the port is moving out of the city. A lot of people put this down to scale, and the increasing difficulties associated with the type of activities of industrial ports. This is true, but there is always something else playing a role, which has to do with the question of the relation between the city as global and the city as local.’
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