TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning from temporary use and the making of on-demand communities in London’s Olympic “fringes”
AU - Ferreri, Mara
PY - 2020/3/15
Y1 - 2020/3/15
N2 - Community-oriented temporary uses are a subset of interim use in vacant urban spaces, alongside creative and commercial practices. Its proponents argue that they can inform more incremental and residents-led local urban development. Under urban austerity, however, temporary uses can become vehicles for the short-term and conditional delivery of social benefits. In this paper, I analyse a community-oriented interim use project commissioned by a public development body as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games urban regeneration program. Drawing upon policy analysis and interviews with planners, policymakers, architects and community members, I unravel competing discourses, positions, power dynamics and temporalities, and their relationship to the Games’ legacy. The paper contributes to debates about the normalization of temporary urbanism and pop-up geographies in times of urban austerity, shedding light on the potential long-term implications of the logic of “on-demand communities” in urban development and planning.
AB - Community-oriented temporary uses are a subset of interim use in vacant urban spaces, alongside creative and commercial practices. Its proponents argue that they can inform more incremental and residents-led local urban development. Under urban austerity, however, temporary uses can become vehicles for the short-term and conditional delivery of social benefits. In this paper, I analyse a community-oriented interim use project commissioned by a public development body as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games urban regeneration program. Drawing upon policy analysis and interviews with planners, policymakers, architects and community members, I unravel competing discourses, positions, power dynamics and temporalities, and their relationship to the Games’ legacy. The paper contributes to debates about the normalization of temporary urbanism and pop-up geographies in times of urban austerity, shedding light on the potential long-term implications of the logic of “on-demand communities” in urban development and planning.
KW - London 2012 Olympic Games
KW - interim uses
KW - on-demand communities
KW - pop-up geographies
KW - urban regeneration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074390861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02723638.2019.1679527
DO - 10.1080/02723638.2019.1679527
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 409
EP - 427
JO - Urban Geography
JF - Urban Geography
SN - 0272-3638
IS - 3
ER -