The Thames Gateway, a marshy hinterland stretching east from London has been pegged out by the government as the site for 160,000 new homes by 2016. English Heritage has been keen to advertise the areas overlooked past as the key ingredient of placemaking; a way for future schemes to maintain a feeling of continuity with a places past. But where the demands of alien scales of development are irreconcilable with historical conditions, can that sense of continuity be fabricated?
At Barking Riverside, a former landfill at the heart of the Gateway, any traces of archaeology that might have existed have already been erased. Yet 11,000 homes are planned for the site in the next 20 years. This is a mockumentary set 40 years after the completion of an alternative masterplan for Barking Riverside. It records residents memories and impressions of a town built on the myth of a fictional, improved version of suburbia; a large white lie which may be fake, but ought to be true.
i dont understand!! explain please?????
plhokko 3 years ago
The Thames Gateway, a marshy hinterland stretching east from London has been pegged out by the government as the site for 160,000 new homes by 2016. English Heritage has been keen to advertise the areas overlooked past as the key ingredient of placemaking; a way for future schemes to maintain a feeling of continuity with a places past. But where the demands of alien scales of development are irreconcilable with historical conditions, can that sense of continuity be fabricated?
finnwilliams 3 years ago
At Barking Riverside, a former landfill at the heart of the Gateway, any traces of archaeology that might have existed have already been erased. Yet 11,000 homes are planned for the site in the next 20 years. This is a mockumentary set 40 years after the completion of an alternative masterplan for Barking Riverside. It records residents memories and impressions of a town built on the myth of a fictional, improved version of suburbia; a large white lie which may be fake, but ought to be true.
finnwilliams 3 years ago
pretty odd lol, I live in this area btw
toolongtoremember 3 years ago