I want to begin with those often-quoted words scribbled down by Marx 170 years ago: ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.’ This famous statement poses the question of the role of knowledge within the relations of power. It’s a role we should consider within … Continue reading The London Clearances
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Parliament & Buckingham Estates: A Petition
If the Tories are worried about insufficient population density in Inner London, then Architects for Social Housing (ASH) formally recommends building in the London Borough of Westminster, which has a far lower density of residents (11,109 per km²) than in Tower Hamlets (14,201 per km²), Hackney (13,850) and Lambeth (11,358), the boroughs whose council estates … Continue reading Parliament & Buckingham Estates: A Petition
SOLUTIONS TO A ‘CRISIS’
Two long, sustained, informed and informative articles about London’s housing ‘crisis’ have been published in the past week: Oliver Wainwright’s ‘Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing’, published in last Thursday’s Guardian; and Rowan Moore’s ‘London: the city that ate itself’ in Sunday’s Observer. However, at the end of both, and … Continue reading SOLUTIONS TO A ‘CRISIS’
AJ120 Awards Protest
We protest against the AJ120 nomination of HTA Design, Hawkins/Brown and Mae Architects for the award of Collaboration of the Year for their part in the eviction, demolition and gentrification of the Aylesbury estate. We protest against the collaboration of architects in the transformation of London’s housing into commodities for property investors. We protest against … Continue reading AJ120 Awards Protest
A Communist in Hong Kong 