Rising East Online

Starters

Living the Legacy: Hannah Arbeid hopes for an inclusive Games; Julie Sumner fears the Olympics site will pull up vital roots. >>

Editor’s Letter

The Heritage Gap: Andrew Calcutt reckons we make myth out of the present as well as the past. >>

Heritage and its Discontents

A Better Class of History: Paul Dave introduces the political debate acted out in ‘heritage film’. >>

Industrial bread and a ship full of bombs: Patrick Wright reflects on history and heritage in East London. >>

Nearly New Heritage: Responding to Patrick Wright, John Marriott considers the recent origins of East London’s heritage. >>

Peculiar Capitalism: Paul Dave reviews East London’s ‘occult heritage’. >>

A rough guide to dead labour and the imperial city: Phil Cohen lurks among London ruins. >>

Death of the Cockney: In the Anne Boleyn pub near Upton Park, Mitchell Panayis sees Cockney heritage beheaded. >>

Pop(u)lar planning: Babak Davar on the neglected heritage of the People’s Plan for the Royal Docks 1983. >>

Regeneration Without End: William Mann considers the legacy of regenerations past. >>

Memoryscape: Toby Butler does heritage differently. >>

Responding to Rising East’s recent past

Queen’s Market Rules: Update on Queen’s Market re-development. >>

James, please take off your blinkers: Herbert Girardet replies to James Heartfield’s critique of sustainability, Rising East 3, the Sustainability issue. >>

Where is east London’s energy to come from in future? Nuclear, sun, wind, tidal, coal?: Andrew Stobart wants East London to be empowered. >>

7/7: a very British bombing: Brendan O’Neill writes that contributors to Rising East 4, Multiculturalism and ‘the war on terror’, do not realise that the London bombers were as British as bacon and egg. >>

Sixes and Sevens: LONDONE year on: Phil Cohen sees more barriers being built in response to 2012 and 7/7. >>

Reporting the City

Bastard Countryside: William Mann explores town and country combined in Lea Valley. >>

Scaling down: Alastair Donald sees building shrink in his review of Utopian Architecture at the Barbican. >>

New Public Space: Lift (London International Festival of Theatre) reveals portable performance space for East London debut. >>

That’s Entertainment

Sustainable communities: Cooking up a policy with Captain Nemesis. >>

The Real Estate of Heritage: cartoon by Jinx. >>

Sweeping movement: Phil Cohen snaps Banksy . >>