legacy lost
My piece in Occupied Times 15'In Search Of Legacies Lost' will soon appear here, fully referenced (at time of writing it remains embargoed).read more
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The former Arena Field, site of the Media Centre, in 2008 Runners are sent ahead to drum up excitement; the circus rolls into town, and the people pay. Show over and profits taken, the circus pulls...
View ArticleThe Juggernaut rolls on - Olympic Autocracy at Leyton Marsh
Following earlier extraordinary legal decisions, including the acquittal of PC Harwood and the ruling in the High Court that pre-emptive arrests were not unlawful, comes the news that Save Leyton...
View ArticleThis might be a very small, very local Olympics legacy story...
At the end of July 2012 residents of Wick Village rallied to oppose ODA plans for the construction of a new bridge to cross the canal from Gainsborough School. The original bridge had been just for the...
View ArticleA legacy of 'no clemency, no kindness'
It's just another very small, very local Olympics legacy story about an Olympic bridge, a second Olympic bridge, across the Hackney Cut canal. The other, the first bridge crossed the canal from the...
View ArticleA waterlogged Legacy
danny ?@m37411ic48, 'an accidental philosopher' who drives a black cab, tweeted a couple of pictures of the aftermath of the hammer throw practice area in Mayesbrook Park:Olympic legacy: ‘this is where...
View Articleand so it begins
Hackney Marshes – Public ConsultationI am writing to let you know that the Council is planning to launch a public consultation on a proposal to apply for PINS consent to hold major public events on...
View Articleshifting sands?
Silicon Hackney: The (r)evolution of Hackney Wick: Screenshot from www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/silicon-hackney-the-r-evolution-of-hackney-wick- Wed 03 Apr 2013 22:52:53 BSTread more
View Articlewrong side of the cut
A cynic could well conclude this LLDC consultation has had to be extended because it attracted the wrong kind of responses? read more
View ArticleLondon2012 - the miracle of hotels in Stratford
Popular London2012 miracle stories keep cropping up, often in an academic context. Recent examples were provided at the ongoing UEL seminars held at the LLDC headquarters in the poshly named Montfichet...
View ArticleAftermath2012: First they came for the residents, businesses, gardeners, then...
Hackney Wick has greatest density of artists in ALL Europeread more
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