Dispatches from ‘the frontline of gentrification’

Duman, Alberto

doi:10.1080/13604813.2012.737507

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“…Hackney Mare Street is now part of what has been branded the "Maker Mile" and was featured in the European project "Cities of Making" (Domenech et al, 2020) as a hotspot for new urban manufacturers and creative industries. Hackney has been subject to waves of gentrification, with artist "pioneers" later displaced by middle class gentrifiers and with the "frontline" of gentrification extending geographically north-eastwards over the last few decades (Duman, 2012;Hamnett & Williams, 1980). This has resulted in both industrial gentrification and industrial displacement by residential redevelopment, with its manufacturing and artistic heritage used in developers' branding strategies (Ferm, 2016).…”

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Planning Urban Manufacturing, Industrial Building Typologies, and Built Environments: Lessons From Inner London

Ferm

Panayotopoulos-Tsiros

Griffiths

2021

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Despite concerns about the loss of industry, industrial land, and buildings in high-value post-industrial cities, there is concurrently a renewed enthusiasm around the potential of “new” urban manufacturing and its contribution to the socio-economic diversity of cities. Yet, little is known about how planning policy can best support the retention and growth of urban manufacturing. To advance this agenda, this article proposes that we need a better understanding of industrial building typologies and resultant urban form. Using concepts developed by Julienne Hanson to analyse residential morphologies undergoing transformation under modernism, we apply these concepts to investigate the industrial, mixed-use contexts in two areas of London with concentrations of urban manufacturing—Hackney Mare Street and Old Kent Road. The research presented examines how both areas have evolved historically to produce distinctive urban tissues and a range of industrial building typologies. The article reveals that, despite territorial similarities in the late 19th century, the mixed land uses and smaller plot sizes of Hackney Mare Street have allowed for a more resilient development pattern, whereas the greater separation of land uses, large plot sizes, and inward-facing development in the Old Kent Road has facilitated its reimagination for large-scale regeneration. We conclude that greater attention needs to be paid to the relationship between urban manufacturing and built urban form if policies that aim to protect or support the revival of manufacturing in cities are to avoid negative unintended consequences.

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Planning Urban Manufacturing, Industrial Building Typologies, and Built Environments: Lessons From Inner London

Ferm

Panayotopoulos-Tsiros

Griffiths

2021

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“…The three areas that feature most in the 2018 and 2020 videos are Brixton, Hackney and Walthamstow. These are areas that are historically associated with deprivation and racialised minority settlement and that today are associated with gentrification (Duman, 2012; Paccoud and Mace, 2018). The urban displacement project which uses machine learning and spatial analysis to identify levels of gentrification in London finds that parts of Brixton are experiencing ‘super-gentrification’ and parts of Hackney and Walthamstow are experiencing ‘marginal gentrification’ (Urban Displacement Project, 2021).…”

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‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign

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This article examines the production, representations and reactions to the #LondonIsOpen campaign to ask how urban imaginaries are produced and what they entail for understanding the city. The analysis considers how the idea of a cosmopolitan, diverse and multicultural city is framed, what it includes and excludes and the distinct geographies of the city it produces. It draws on three data sources: documentary analysis of videos used in the campaign; social media analysis of tweets using #LondonIsOpen; and semi-structured interviews with key figures in the campaign team. The main arguments are that the appeal to openness contributes to the versatility of the campaign and the range of responses to it, making it highly adaptable and flexible to respond to current affairs; and that open London is geographically selective and imagined as business focused, trendy and cosmopolitan. In turn, the reactions to the idea of open London range from seeking a borderless world to anti-migrant rhetoric. Although the campaign represents London as welcoming and inclusive, such welcoming is partial and subject to contestation. The article concludes that over time, the openness of #LondonIsOpen has come to serve multiple political functions and act as a brand for the city.

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“…These days Hackney is almost synonymous with gentrification. As the epicentre of London's hipster economy, and an increasingly popular residential location for upper middleclass professionals and families, it has undergone significant changes over recent decades (Butler et al 2013;Duman 2012). Sarah explains how Netil House occupies what was a community college before it became derelict and was squatted.…”

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Crafted places/places for craft: Pop-up and the politics of the ‘crafted’ city

Harris¹

2017

Craft Economies

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In recent years cities across the Global North have experienced the rapid rise of 'pop-up' culture; a trend for creating temporary places in disused sites and buildings. Pop-up has been widely promoted within the creative industries as providing cheap and flexible access to space and is now a popular format for craft makers and sellers. In this chapter I propose that examining pop-up's intersections with the craft economy offers important insights into craft's impact in contemporary cities. I explore pop-up as a geography through which craft's logics of one-off, handmade production and flexible labour are transforming the urban fabric. I consider how craft's emphasis on the unique and the handmade is, through pop-up, infused into the materiality of the city and how its labour logics of flexibility also find spatiotemporal form in pop-up's own versatile urban landscape. The growing intersection of craft and pop-up cultures, begs a pertinent question: if craft's sensibilities are being advanced and extended in the city through pop-up, then what does the politics of this 'crafted' city look like? More specifically; in a contemporary condition characterized by widespread precarity (Gill & Pratt 2008), how does this extension of craft's logics reflect and shape assumptions about how cities should be lived, governed and reproduced? Pop-up culture's shared sensibility with craft is clearly discernible. Pop-up sites are customarily handmade by their organizers; re-used materials are employed to craft personalized temporary spaces that, like craft products, are celebrated as one-off, DIY creations. Pop-up is also tied up with the same economic shifts towards post-Fordist economies within which craft is implicated. It is, like craft, an arena where 'flexible' work patterns are normalized and glamorized (Deslandes 2013; Ferreri 2015; Graziano & Ferreri 2014). It is also rooted in the 'hipster' economy within which craft has been situated; a scene whose sensibilities include a return to domestic practices of 'making, cooking and growing' (Luckman 2015: 44) which can be partially understood in relation to the austerity aesthetics ensuing

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Dispatches from ‘the frontline of gentrification’

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Planning Urban Manufacturing, Industrial Building Typologies, and Built Environments: Lessons From Inner London

Planning Urban Manufacturing, Industrial Building Typologies, and Built Environments: Lessons From Inner London

‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign

Crafted places/places for craft: Pop-up and the politics of the ‘crafted’ city

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