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LiVinGMAPS nETwOrK Framework for a pilot project Our Kind OF TOwn Towards a Citizens Atlas of London Phil Cohen Livingmaps network www.livingmaps.org.uk 1 LiVinGMAPS nETwOrK The context London, home from home for global property


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Framework for a pilot project

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‘Towards a Citizens Atlas of London’ Phil Cohen Livingmaps network www.livingmaps.org.uk

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The context

  • London, home from home for global property investment, real

estate speculation and fjnancialisation of assets

  • Historic shift in metropolitan centre of gravity and growth from

West to East

  • Accelerated de-industrialisation and gentrifjcation of inner London

and working class suburbs

  • Privatisation of public space and amenities
  • Decline of social and affordable housing
  • Hollowing out of community assets and resources
  • Individualisation of social aspiration
  • Precarious lives, precarious work
  • Antinomies of governance: deregulation of infrastructure plus

intensifjed ground control

  • Corporate Imagineering of the future: the smart city agenda

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Priorities for popular planning

  • Devolving planning power from the local state to neighbourhood

forums to create a grass roots structure of decision making with capacity to regulate market forces in the interests of civic and community stakeholders

  • Re-connecting workplace and neighbourhood communities
  • Spatial planning for work/life balance
  • Re-designing public space and the built environment to prioritise

women’s needs

  • Creating safe and adventurous places for and with children and

teenagers

  • Re-enabling the elderly and people with special needs to enjoy full

access to public amenities

  • Greening the urban economy and transport infra-structure

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Democratic defjcit: the challenge...

  • To enable established communities of London workers and

residents facing an uncertain future to envisage and articulate their

  • wn vision /plan for ‘opportunity areas’
  • To enable groups living ‘on the edge’ to connect issues of day to

day survival with collective aspirations based on realistic principles

  • f hope for a better future in a just city
  • To link personal geographies of the neighbourhood to the wider

political geography of London as a world city. What does it mean to be a ‘Londoner’?

  • To replace reactive NIMBYism with pro-active YIMBYism
  • To recognise and enhance the power of place intelligence

amongst marginalised groups

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Defjning ‘place intelligence’

  • Translocally situated knowledge
  • Tacit and explicitly coded
  • Navigational and narrativised
  • Circumstantial and imaginative
  • Multi-modal skill set
  • Shapes place identity and belonging
  • Links attachment and aspiration to site specifjc resource

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Place intelligence: enhancing the skill set

  • Observational
  • Investigative
  • Interpretive
  • Communicational
  • Rhetorical
  • Analytic
  • Counter-intuitive

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Building place intelligence through participatory action research (PAr)

  • Co-constructing the agenda
  • Dialogic interviews
  • Collaborative mapping
  • Peer to Peer pedagogy
  • Transfer of knowledge and skills within

a community of shared practice

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OPPOrTuniTy ArEAS (FOr whOM?)

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Intensifjed gentrifjcation or more genuinely affordable & social housing?

  • Accelerated de-industrialisation or a more balanced but still green

urban economy?

  • Privatisation of public space or more access to free recreational

and cultural amenity for lower income groups, for women and children, and for the disabled?

  • Hollowing out community assets or strengthening urban bonds
  • Repressive ground control or ‘eyes on the street’

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The 2050 promise

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2050 Plan areas

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Megasites

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The housing ‘brandscape’

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Privately owned open spaces

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heygate Estate

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City in the East: Numbers

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City in the East: Places

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‘A CiTizEnS ATLAS OF LOndOn’

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Long term aims

  • To create a network of citizen mappers in ‘opportunity areas’

with little or no tradition of community activism but which will fjnd themselves on the front line of gentrifjcation and de- industrialisation.

  • To provide an online cartographic platform to help develop a

culture of popular planning, scaling up locally situated knowledge into a translocal framework of democratic deliberation about London’s future.

  • To produce learning and campaigning resources and other

material to support these aims.

  • To publish an atlas of maps and essays ‘Our Kind of Town’.

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Short term objectives

  • To pilot and evaluate a method of community mapping and

participatory action research focused on maximising ‘place intelligence’.

  • To produce a citizen mapping of two contrasting ‘opportunity

areas’ identifjed in the London 2050 infrastructure plan

  • To build and test a toolkit of learning and campaigning resources

useful to residents and small businesses facing large scale regeneration plans which threaten their future.

  • To create an online prototype for the Citizens Atlas of London

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The process

IMAGE: Diagram of the OKOT process (Nicolas Fonty)

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TwO PiLOT ArEAS

Charlton riverside & Silvertown/north woolwich

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when the Thames was a working river

IMAGE: Map of North Woolwich and Charlton in 1937

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Charlton riverside

Community issues

  • De-industrialisation: pressure on small businesses offering local employment to

skilled manual workers to relocate to make way for higher value residential uses

  • Gentrifjcation: new housing built for market rent or home ownership – two council

estates decanted for ‘refurbishment’

  • Planning Blight: uncertainty results in lack of investment in industrial estates.
  • Viability of small creative industries hub
  • Flagship sites:

(old ): Coreys Wharf - Charlton F . C. (new): Sainsburys DC - Odeon Imax

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Charlton: Concept Map

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Lydenburg Street

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hopper

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Scheduled for demolition?

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Apply now

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royal docks

Community issues

  • Silvertown Tunnel and London City Airport expansion

threatens to increase already high level of pollution

  • Future of Chinese Business Centre development uncertain
  • Tate and Lyle factory possible closure
  • Silvertown Quays development lack of social housing
  • Cross Rail impact
  • North Woolwich area of multiple deprivation

continuing planning blight

  • Flagship sites:

UEL Docklands Campus Excel Centre Newham Council Offjces

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Royal Docks: Plan View (1982)

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Royal Docks: Plan View (2016)

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Silvertown Quays

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A view from Silvertown

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A view from north woolwich

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ThE PIloT: wOrKinG METhOdS

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Key stages of intervention

  • Identifjcation of key groups for workshops via pop-up mapping events
  • Opportunity area impact study focussing on key regeneration sites plus accident,

crime and pollution hot spots

  • Testing and evaluating the toolkit
  • Creation of multi-layered map of area’s past present and future development
  • Multi-media presentation of alternative 2050 vision

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Participatory mapping (1)

IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty

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Participatory Mapping 2

IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty

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Community asset mapping

IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty

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Workshop Process: Stage one

Mapping the past into the present

  • Life journey mapping + life story interviews
  • Building memoryscape: photo archive + place narratives
  • Recovering planning history: factual and counter factual
  • Back stories of community action

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Life journey map

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history and the counter-factual

IMAGE: John Wallett

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Workshop Process: Stage Two:

The present

  • Collective rewrite of area’s Wikipedia entry
  • Site observations + photo-documentation + video walkabouts
  • Narrative and network mapping
  • Community impact and asset mapping
  • Interviews with local residents and businesses, trade unionists and

community activists

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narrative mapping

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Mental maps

IMAGE: Phil Cohen

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Workshop Process: Stage Three

Mapping the future

  • Scenario Construction
  • Model and map making
  • Co-creation of alternative opportunity area plan with team of

student planners and architects

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Scenario Construction

  • Scenario One: The Neo-Liberal City - present trends continue

maximising land values and rentier profjt

  • Scenario Two: The Smart City - maximising technological fjxes
  • Scenario Three: The People’s City - maximising social, economic

and environmental justice

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Visions of the Future

The Smart City: Techno-Utopia

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The Consumer City

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The Corporate City

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The People’s City

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youth Project

  • For 16- 18 year olds
  • Exploring their sense of place, identity and belonging
  • Examining issues of safety, danger and the policing of public space.
  • Learning to use mapping and video technologies to articulate their point of view

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Engaging young people in planning

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ThE OuTPuTS

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Citizens Atlas Prototype

  • Online open access hosted on LivingMaps website
  • Interactive and updateable
  • Multilayered and multi-media format
  • Draws on workshop generated material
  • Base line map: key landmarks and physical features of pilot areas
  • Community asset and liability map
  • Memory map: telling the backstory
  • Narrative map: navigating the present
  • Future trouble: map /guide to regeneration hot spots in 2050 plan
  • Our kind of town: the people’s map of opportunity areas

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Toolkit/Learning resources

  • Welcome to Our Kind of Neighbourhood: map/poster
  • Master Planning for Beginners
  • I Spy an Opportunity Area
  • Our Kind of Town Visual Display

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welcome to Our Kind of neighbourhood

  • A1 folded map of Charlton Riverside (recto) and Silvertown/North

Woolwich (verso)

  • Maps the People’s ‘Opportunity Area’
  • Graphic re-envisaging of key regeneration sites
  • Based on workshop materials plus contextual information

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Master Planning for Beginners

  • Demystifjes planning jargon
  • Presents key concepts in popular planning
  • Exercises in site observation and deep mapping:

connecting personal and political geographies

  • Community impact/asset mapping techniques
  • Participant action research methods
  • Graphic design and writing exercises for generating campaigning maps

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i-Spy an Opportunity Area

  • Develops observational and investigative skills for social mapping and urban studies
  • Designed for GCSE and A Level students
  • Illustrates standpoints of property developers, planners, social tenants and gentrifjers
  • Walkabout exercises and thought experiments
  • Comic book format: image /texts

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dissemination Activities

  • ‘Our Kind of Neighbourhood’ Visual Displays
  • Atlas launch and Popular Planning event
  • Pop Up Community Mapping events
  • Workshops for community organisations
  • Project Evaluation and Report

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Parallel initiatives

London Mapper

Visualisation of big data on social inequality. Quantitative not qualitative. Produced by professionals for

  • professionals. Aimed at planners, policy makers and other urbanists. Non interactive snapshot of present
  • trends. http://www. Londonmapper.org.uk

Just Map

The cartographic arm of Just Space, networking activist groups to develop a community led plan for

  • London. http://justplace-ondon. blogspot. co. uk/

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London Mapper (Cartogram)

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Just Space

Towards a Community- Led Plan for London Ideas for discussion and debate

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Just Map

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DElIVERy MATTERS

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Milestones 2017

  • January

Groundwork in each area

  • February

Pop-up Community Mapping Events

  • March

Construct Area Profjles Community Asset and Liability Map

  • April–June

Workshop Programme

  • July-September

Atlas Prototype Built and Tested Toolkit Built and Tested

  • October–December

Dissemination Programme

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Team Biographies

Phil Cohen: Project Management and evaluation

An urban ethnographer turned cultural geographer by trade, Phil has worked with communities in East London since the early 1970s charting the impact of economic and demographic change on the livelihoods, life styles and life stories of several generations of East Londoners. He has pioneered participatory forms of research in exploring issues of class, race, gender and generation as these are impacted by processes of urban regeneration. Amongst his many books are Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city; Rethinking the Youth Question; London’s Turning: the making of Thames Gateway and On the Wrong side of the track? East London and the Post Olympics. He is the Research Director of Livingmaps Network, the Editor in Chief of Livingmaps Review, Emeritus Professor at the University of East London and a Research Fellow of the Young Foundation. www. philcohenworks.com

Specialist Consultants

Giota Alevizou

Giota Alevizou is a researcher interested in the relationship of digital media and citizenship was developed during her research and teaching in the Open University. During the last 6 years she has conducted funded research into urban media ecologies and creative civic activism. Most recently she was the principle investigator of an ESRC funded research project exploring the links between digital communication, critical cartography and community asset mapping.

nicole Crockett

Nicole Crockett is a social architect and Chief Executive of the Building Exploratory where she provides strategic leadership to a team devising innovative education and lifelong learning opportunities for thousands of school children and hard to reach adults across East London. Throughout her career she has maintained a commitment to architecture, raising its profjle among the wider population and promoting an agenda of inclusiveness. Her community based work on the built environment was recently recognised by the award of an Honorary Fellow at the RIBA.

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workshop Team

Barbara Brayshay

Barbara Brayshay is a Director of Livingmaps and Editor of the Waypoints section of Livingmaps

  • Review. Her interests are in the areas of social justice, digital media, community development and
  • sustainability. Barbara specialises in the use of innovative approaches to data gathering including the use
  • f participatory action research technique in primary research, project evaluation and impact assessment.

nicolas Fonty

Nicolas Fonty is an, architect, urban designer, planner and community mapper. From 2008 to 2013 Nicolas worked on Greater Paris master planning within the Secchi-Vigano team for the Atelier Internationnal du Grand Paris. He co-founded Occupy#PublicSpaces to collaboratively map, through workshops during neighbourhood festivals, the place intelligence of local residents in the Paris suburbs. Since coming to London he has played an active role in the development of the Livingmaps Network, editing the Mapworks section of its online journal. He also works with Just Space, developing a cartography of community activism in London. http://justplace-london. blogspot. co. uk/

debbie humphry

Debbie Humphry is a social geographer,and photographer. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of East London (UEL) and works with a range of voluntary and public sector clients and partners. Her research area include housing/home, neighbourhood and community, relations of class and inequality, and social

  • mobility. She uses a range of innovative participative and visual methods aimed at enhancing the input
  • f the research subjects. Her writing and research has been published widely in academic, education

and media publications, as has her photography, including in The Guardian, the Observer magazine, The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Festival Hall London

John wallett

John Wallett is a graphic and information designer and educator who has worked with arts, education and campaign organisations in East London for over twenty-fjve years. He is a founder of the ‘Common Knowledge’ network and is also founder member of the pop-up community cinema project ‘Moving Image’ in East Anglia. John has been responsible for the design of many Livingmaps project proposals, displays and web-based projects, delivering creative mapping projects in the Stratford E20 area and more recently in North Colchester. He is currently planning a knowledge mapping project for the Science Museum.

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delivery Partners

Just Space/JustMap development Planning unit Bartlett uCL Centre for East London Studies uEL The Building Exploratory Mapping for Change

Local Consultations

Alberto duman royal docks Music for Master Planning Project roy Tindle Charlton riverside Activist and resident Sharon O’Callaghan Peoples Plan for the royal docks Emanuel Gotora London Citizens The Asta Community hub Silvertown St Johns Community Centre north woolwich new Charlton Community Centre

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Our Kind OF TOwn

‘A Citizens Atlas of London’ Livingmaps network www.livingmaps.org.uk

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