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Dear Colleagues Please circulate this information to colleagues and students. Further information about the programme, and the third issue of our online journal Livingmaps Review will be available shortly on our website: www.livingmaps.org.uk<http://www.livingmaps.org.uk> Many thanks Phil Cohen Research Director Livingmaps ________________________________ LIVINGMAPS OUR KIND OF TOWN PUBLIC LECTURE Wednesday 27 September 2017 at 6 pm Lecture Theatre 2 The Cruciform Building, UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT TICKETS £15.00 and £7.50 (concessions) Book online through Eventbrite<http://bit.ly/LONDON-OPP?mc_cid=d1aa00ce5b&mc_eid=[UNIQID]> LONDON’S REGENERATION: OPPORTUNITY FOR WHOM? Michael Edwards and Anna Minton discuss London’s ‘regeneration’, past, present and future. Drawing on many years of engagement with London’s ‘regeneration’ including Covent Garden, Tolmers Square, Coin Street, Docklands, King’s Cross, Elephant and Castle, Haringey, Michael Edwards will review some of the conflicts between tenants, resident and community groups, the development industry and public authorities since the 1960s in an attempt to separate enduring structural issues from conjunctural shifts. Will New Labour and London First continue to be in charge or is a community led plan for London possible? Anna Minton looks at London’s regeneration through the prism of housing, tracing the processes which have transformed it from a basic civic right into a financialised asset. She draws on original research to document this transition through a series of political actions and inactions on the part of successive governments, which have allowed property developers and global real estate to manipulate the housing market to their own advantage and immense profit. She examines the predicament of ‘generation rent’ and explores possible strategies to challenge the hegemony of finance and property capital in shaping London’s future. Michael Edwards studied planning at UCL 1964-6. He worked in Nathaniel Lichfield's office, mainly doing economic inputs to the Plan for Milton Keynes. He has enjoyed lecturing at the Bartlett School, UCL, since 1969, been involved in various London community actions and in all the hearings on London Plans since 2000, working with the network of community groups JustSpace.org.uk<http://justspace.org.uk/?mc_cid=d1aa00ce5b&mc_eid=[UNIQID]> His publications are at michaeledwards.org.uk<http://michaeledwards.org.uk/?mc_cid=d1aa00ce5b&mc_eid=[UNIQID]> and he tweets as @michaellondonsf. Anna Minton is a writer, journalist and academic. She is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the 21st Century City (Penguin 2012, 2009). She is Reader in Architecture at the University of East London and Programme Leader of UEL's MRes Architecture, 'Reading the Neoliberal City'. She is a contributor to the Guardian and appears regularly on TV and radio. OUR KIND OF TOWN This public lecture series has been launched by the Livingmaps Network to support the creation of an online Citizen’s Atlas of London. The atlas will provide a platform through which communities on the front line of regeneration can explore and map their fears and hopes for the future development of this great city as well as their concerns about its present direction. LIVINGMAPS Livingmaps is an independent network of artists, academics and activists concerned to developed a critical and creative approach to social mapping, working in partnership with. We run seminars , workshops, walks and screenings and are currently working on a number of community mapping. We also publish an online journal twice a year. 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