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Emerging Urban SpacesContinuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation

Emerging Urban Spaces: Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical... [The task of this paper is twofold: The first is to parse out aspects of continuity and change in the decentralist urbanisation of the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), through utilising an experimental methodological combination of two urban epistemologies: planetary urbanisationUrbanurbanisation and assemblageAssemblageurbanismUrbanurbanism. The second task, responding to the first, is to reflect on this theoretical approach and thus assess these much-debated epistemologies of the urban. To contextualise decentralism, this chapter includes a brief review of the new towns, an influential type of urbanisation, which preceded the LDDCLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)LDDC, and of the lobbying activity of their representative organisation, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)Town and Country Planning Association amidst the ‘crisis of the inner city’ in the 1970s and 1980s, and briefly surveys plans for DocklandsLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)Docklands from the 1970s. This history of decentralismDecentralisationdecentralism, as a form of urban transformation, is framed in light of reification and the idea of second natureNature. The assemblage urbanist side of the methodology utilised by the chapter places particular focus on the retaining wall—an overlooked infrastructure that was key to the rehabilitation of both docks and rivers in East London. The chapter shows how retaining walls were subject to a perpendicular reorientation under the tenure of the LDDC, where a decentralist typology persisted within the post-industrial context. The chapter concludes that despite their political differences, the LDDCLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)LDDC in fact came closest to realising plans for the ‘decongested’, low-density inner city advocated for by the TCPA in the 1970s, and ends with a reflection on the approach utilised and its future potential.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emerging Urban SpacesContinuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation

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Editors: Horn, Philipp; Alfaro d'Alencon, Paola; Duarte Cardoso, Ana Claudia
Mountain, David
Emerging Urban Spaces — Feb 28, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-57815-6
Pages
87 –107
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-57816-3_5
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Abstract

[The task of this paper is twofold: The first is to parse out aspects of continuity and change in the decentralist urbanisation of the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), through utilising an experimental methodological combination of two urban epistemologies: planetary urbanisationUrbanurbanisation and assemblageAssemblageurbanismUrbanurbanism. The second task, responding to the first, is to reflect on this theoretical approach and thus assess these much-debated epistemologies of the urban. To contextualise decentralism, this chapter includes a brief review of the new towns, an influential type of urbanisation, which preceded the LDDCLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)LDDC, and of the lobbying activity of their representative organisation, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)Town and Country Planning Association amidst the ‘crisis of the inner city’ in the 1970s and 1980s, and briefly surveys plans for DocklandsLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)Docklands from the 1970s. This history of decentralismDecentralisationdecentralism, as a form of urban transformation, is framed in light of reification and the idea of second natureNature. The assemblage urbanist side of the methodology utilised by the chapter places particular focus on the retaining wall—an overlooked infrastructure that was key to the rehabilitation of both docks and rivers in East London. The chapter shows how retaining walls were subject to a perpendicular reorientation under the tenure of the LDDC, where a decentralist typology persisted within the post-industrial context. The chapter concludes that despite their political differences, the LDDCLondon Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC)LDDC in fact came closest to realising plans for the ‘decongested’, low-density inner city advocated for by the TCPA in the 1970s, and ends with a reflection on the approach utilised and its future potential.]

Published: Feb 28, 2018

Keywords: London Docklands Development Corporation; Planetary urbanisation; Assemblage urbanism; Decentralism

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