Gramsci
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It's also at the Loughborough Farm. See here at bottom of page where I posted up photos:
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It's also at the Loughborough Farm. See here at bottom of page where I posted up photos:
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Just read that article in the ES. It's painful as a resident who has being working closely with her. Unnecessarily thoughless and crass dismissal of people's concerns, not part of the requirement of writing the article I don't think. No wonder LJAG is a divisive issue here if she is happy to express such views in the national press. I'm on friendly terms with Anthea and we've worked together closely on the issue of the playground but that article was a shock.
I know she reads these pages, it does seem odd that she's not a member but felt the need to characterise this website as a reactionary joke.
I know she reads these pages, it does seem odd that she's not a member but felt the need to characterise this website as a reactionary joke.
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Some of my photos of design trail behind the old Bradys ex pub. Where the food market used to be. Some of the work is interesting.
Some of my photos of design trail behind the old Bradys ex pub. Where the food market used to be. Some of the work is interesting.
I am unsure that you are aware of the meaning of reactionary.
Gramsci
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I've just re read the article in ES. I also found it painful to read. I agree with your reasons for finding it painful.
I did think the comment on Urban could have been left out. It is unnecessary dig at Urban posters. Contrast the dismissive one liner on Urban which has been part of Brixton for years with three paragraphs extolling the virtues of Squires recent move here.
Btw I understand your use of the word reactionary in the context of your post.
I know we all have to have a day job but the article could have been written in a different way. Just info on house prices, amenities and transport links. Not all the rest of it.
brixtonblade
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It's weird to mention urban. I'm not surprised by the tone of the article - it's what all the property puff pieces in the paper are like. It;s really odd to mention this site though - I don't see what it's supposed to achieve, the number of readers of the article who know the site must be tiny.
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And that's the bit that rubbed me up the wrong way. The "shock horror" comments seemed particularly snide.
Some people do give a fuck about gentrification because they've lost their homes or businesses as a direct result of it.
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Anthea is in a very tricky position locally, she's embattled and in some ways very isolated, despite & because of her powerful position in relation to the council. Its so heated and divided round here (in LJ) and she is seen by some as the face of gentrification, if I were her I'd be nervous about just popping to Tesco's.
So the stress of that must be really strange to live with on a daily basis but that doesn't help me understand why she felt the need to make those dismissive quips in the ES, cathartic as it might have felt to write or whatever.
So the stress of that must be really strange to live with on a daily basis but that doesn't help me understand why she felt the need to make those dismissive quips in the ES, cathartic as it might have felt to write or whatever.
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That said, if you type Brixton into Google, urban75 appears right near the top.
Gramsci
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It would not surprise me if Anthea thought she could slip this in as a piece of suberversion. On the surface dismissive but bringing up the issues. Reading against the grain.
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I did notice the article , whilst giving Squires three paragraphs, omits to mention that a large section of Brixton market area is boarded up courtesy of Network Rail.
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If that was her aim, I think she could have done a far better job of it.
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I found the juxtaposition as irritating as the comment on Urban itself. It was deliberate.
The Squires quote I've heard him say himself. How Kings Cross was becoming corporate and they moved to Brixton as there is community here. Squires helped design the regenerated Kings Cross. Make it what it is today. Then decide to move here as end result of Kings Cross is that it's "corporate". Like it had nothing to do with them. If design has an important role in a community As Brixton Design trail implies. Something went wrong in Kings Cross.
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The walk is advertised in the Lambeth Heritage Festival booklet.
It's tempting for me too - but it's a bit short notice to book, and anyway in my case I need to go a another event at St Andrews Stockwell Green at 2.30 pm (which could well be demolished and redeveloped, so hearing about the history is almost a one-off)
Maybe I'll try tagging along at the Commercial. If there are not 40 people maybe they can fit another one in.
But if she starts going on about bodies in the streets I might suggest she should've been doing the Gerrard Winstanley digger event yesterday (which was iteresting, if intense).
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Tonight! Brixton tonight! Beyoncé to Britpop at the Brixton Buzz takeover party at the Dogstar, Sat 23rd Sept
I have a small guest list so drop me a PM....
I have a small guest list so drop me a PM....
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madolesance
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It's quite staggering the amount of money they have spent just on the bar/ dining area on the 4th floor. I was up there today and met a few Brixton folk and all had our mouths wide open at the sheer quality and total no expense spared just it that one area.
It all looks amazing and you can kick back feeling like your not in Brixton.
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It is a very impressive space and they have spent fortunes but as number 9 in the Architect's Journal top 100 British practices they do need to impress visiting clients - We should be happy and pleased they have spent their money in Toplin House/The Department Store and Brixton
Gramsci
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I went in to see the craft market. Didn't feel like going upstairs. It has the look of places I go into in Shoreditch.
It has the feel of a place designed to impress rich clients. I didn't feel like staying and left.
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Gramsci
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I did my best to like the Design trail. But found the concept behind vapid.
Love is Power: respect for our differences and acknowledgement of our shared values.
I don't see that. Love didn't stop Network Rail.
I also saw today to coincide with design trail the furniture and planters have gone from Beehive place. Which is probably a coincidence but still annoying. Love is Power. Not if ur Lambeth Council.
Love is Power: respect for our differences and acknowledgement of our shared values.
I don't see that. Love didn't stop Network Rail.
I also saw today to coincide with design trail the furniture and planters have gone from Beehive place. Which is probably a coincidence but still annoying. Love is Power. Not if ur Lambeth Council.
lefteri
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Shall we tug our forelocks while we're at it?
Angellic
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Still not sure why they had to replace the lantern. New one is ok but not really a dazzling piece of 'starchitecture'.
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