︎Year 4
James Smith
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The Values of Land
Old Oak Common, London
Urbanism has become a pseudo-financial institution,
regulated and validated as such. The value of land in cities has gone beyond
what can be produced, instead into what can be ‘stored’ by land. For the last
decade, OOC has been touted as the answer to the housing shortage of inner
London, as an ultra-connected business district, as a new commercial centre for
London; providing over 24,000 homes and 65,000 new jobs - a promised land for
the future of London’s growth. By proposing strategic changes to UK planning, what
architecture would be created by a system understanding space as a social
responsibility rather than asset.
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