mobility & politics

ON MOBILITY & RIGHTS:Class 10

Who moves?Who stays?At what price?

1. SPACE - Enduring Innocence (Keller Easterling)- What is a ‘spatial product?- What does Easterling mean when she refers to ‘the dream of “one world” of globally legible boutique hotels and entertainments’?

2. PLACE- Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)- What is Lethem referring to when he writes, ‘Call it “The City’s Best-Kept Secret”?- What is the Fortress of Solitude?

High Street London ReportLooking In-Between Peckham

Nicolas PalominosAdriana Young

1/3 of trips to High St. are not for consumption 40%of Londoners live

within a 5 min. walk of a High St. (3 mill.)

High Streets are mixed used urban corridors

>50%of London’s employees work within 200 m of a High St.(1.45 mill.)

3.6%of London’s road network(500 km)

High Streets are connected, adaptable, mixed, social and intense

boost small scale entrepreneurial activity

have a potential of multiple, complex and overlapping exchange activities

Adopt local high street policies: recognise in Borough planning policy the importance of high streets as varied, complex and unique places, and not just as retail or necessarily town centre spaces.

Rye LaneDetached, Inner South,Narrow, High Density, Deprived,

LIBRARY

TRAIN

TESCO

To create a street trading and market service that contributes to the regeneration of the borough, provides access to high quality affordable food and other goods, has significant positive economic and employment benefits, promotes and sustains independent and small business and contributes to a vibrant, safe public realm.

CLOTHING

FRUIT&VEG

SAFI’S STAND

PECKHAM DEMOGRAPHICS34% BLACK AFRICAN (ONS 2005)

67% WORKING AGE (NOMIS ONS 2009)

25% 0-15 YRS OLD POPULATION - 25,000 (ONS 2009)

PECKHAM RETAIL2,100 STORES13,400 EMPLOYEES6.4 AVG. # EMPLOYEES WESTFIELD STRATFORD: 233 STORES, 10,000 EMPLOYEES

SOUTHWARK TRADING POLICY1,000 TRADING AREAS70% OCCUPANCY£35 APPLICATION FEE£60 WEEKLY RENT£18 WEEKEND DAY RENT

£290 MILLION REGENERATION

£60 PER WEEK

video of peckham

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/news/3740695/Riots-Peckham-building-on-fire.html

TRADING AREA SUCCESSESECONOMICSOCIALPHYSICAL

HIGH STREET THICKNESS

SOUTHWARK HOUSING ASSOC.BengaliChineseFrenchSomaliSpanishTurkishVietnamese

THE MONEY STOREEuroUS Dollar Australian DollarJamaican DollarEgyptian PoundTurkish LiraBulgarian LevBrazilian ReaisChinese Yuan

SAFI SAYS HELLOPashto (Afghanistan)Urdu (India)Dagbani (Ghana)EnglishKrio (Sierra Leone)MandarinSpanish Tagalog (Philippines) Yoruba (Nigeria)

FRUITS & VEGETABLESAfghanistanBrazilChinaCosta RicaEcuador FranceGermanyGhanaItalyNetherlandsNew ZealandSpainUgandaUSA

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TRADING AREAIMPROVEMENTSECONOMICSOCIALPHYSICAL

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE IN-BETWEEN?- INTENSITY OF SMALL SPACES

- VALUE OF EYES ON THE STREET

- FLEXIBLE, MODULAR FOOTPRINT

- TEMPORAL, SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS

- LEGAL LABOUR LOOPHOLES

- TRADING EXPOSURE FOR VULNERABILITY

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HIGH STREET THICKNESS

LONDON PLAN

SOUTHWARK COUNCIL

PECKHAM

UK BORDER AGENCY

GLOBAL TRADE