FEBRUARY BLOG :THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD – AN URBAN TRIPTYCH
1) Chic by Growl
I recently moved into a new neighbourhood in Islington. My flat is in a large Peabody Estate, off the Essex Road, quite close to the area which Ruth Glass made the object of her famous study on ‘gentrification’. I am living in one of the earliest ‘ model dwellings’ built in the 1860’s for the ‘industrious working classes’ by the great Canadian philanthropist and which became an inspiration for the development of social housing in Britain.… Read the rest