The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities
is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics
was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart
of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration
strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local
government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an "Arc of
Opportunity" for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham.
This proposal was outlined in a short film, London's Regeneration
Supernova, and shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010
Shanghai World Expo. While the sweeping changes to East London have
been keenly felt by locals, the symbolism and practicalities of these
changes - for the local area, and the world alike - are overdue serious
investigation. Regeneration Songs is about how places are turned into
simple stories for packaged investment opportunities, how people living
in those places relate to those stories, and how music and art can
render those stories in many different ways.
The book will
also include a download code to obtain the related musical project,
Music for Masterplanning - in which musicians from East London
soundtracked London's Regeneration Supernova - and a 32-page glossy
insert detailing the artists involved.
Regeneration Songs : Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London - Anna Minton, Alberto Duman, Malcolm James, Dan Hancox
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