Yeah, good piece; I really like the LRB. Some kind of
irony involved, isn't there... the footloose, rootless
Olympic circus creating homelessness wherever it touches
down, then moving on to replicate the vicious cycle
somewhen else.
A plague of homelessness spread by the ultimate homeless
'carrier'.
--
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
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On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 13:28:26 -0000
"JONES, Owain" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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> Countryside & Community Research Institute
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> Cheltenham, GL50 2RH
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr
>Jon Cloke
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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....
>
> --
> Dr Jon Cloke
> Lecturer
> Geography Department
> Loughborough University
> Loughborough LE11 3TU
>
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> Tel: 00 44 07984 813681
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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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