On Olympics in London see stuff by Iain Sinclair
e.g http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n12/iain-sinclair/the-olympics-scam
two quotes from that
When did it start, this intimate liaison between developers and government, to reconstruct the body of London, to their mutual advantage? Dr Frankenstein with a Google Earth program and a remote-control laser scalpel.
"The pressure of regeneration, steroidally boosted by the Olympics, is such that liminal zones that once tolerated impoverished artists and free-livers have to turn every wastelot, every previously unnoticed and unrequired ruin, to profit. To provide more statistical housing, it is necessary to unhouse those who have already fended for themselves. Walking down the Regent’s Canal from Victoria Park, on the morning of 8 May 2008, I witnessed another eviction. Around thirty police, with attendant vans. Bailiffs, hired muscle. Council officials in dark suits clutching upraised clipboards. Loud bangs, crunched hinges, and the door is battered down. A towpath cyclist is enraged. ‘How long was that building empty?"
Dr Owain Jones
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Jon Cloke
Sent: 09 January 2010 11:52
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Subject: Re: CBC News - Whistler's homeless relocated ahead of Olympics
Homelessness 'must follow' the Olympics 'as the night the
day' - check these out:
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/295
http://cgmg.jour.city.ac.uk/news.php?story=129
http://no2010.com/node/192
There's a good piece of research to be done on this and
the inevitable effects of the London Olympics....
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Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:23:34 -0500
Deb Ranjan Sinha <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> more olympic madness....
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/08/bc-whistler-homeless-olympics-relocate.html
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