Month: March 2015

Seminar : Revisiting Segal. Learning from the Lewisham Self Build Schemes

March 16, 2015

Date: Thursday 19th March 2015 Time: 7-9pm Location: RHB Cinema, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way SE14 6NW In the 1970s and 1980s, Lewisham became the first council in London to fund a self build project using the Segal method of building. While today self build is often associated with ‘Grand Designs’, these projects focused on providing social … More Seminar : Revisiting Segal. Learning from the Lewisham Self Build Schemes

Seminar – Council Housing Estates in London: From Urban Marginality to State-Led Gentrification by Dr. Paul Watt (Birkbeck)

March 10, 2015

Date : Wednesday 11th March, Time : 4pm Location : Goldsmiths, University of London,  RHB142 This paper examines how processes of ‘state-led gentrification’ are occurring at London’s council housing estates via area-based regeneration programmes. These estates are currently disappearing from the city’s skyline in the name of regeneration and improving the lives and opportunities of their residents. New mixed-tenure … More Seminar – Council Housing Estates in London: From Urban Marginality to State-Led Gentrification by Dr. Paul Watt (Birkbeck)

Magna Carta Today? By Marjorie Mayo

March 4, 2015

Whilst the government was marking the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta with a lavish, £1,750-a-ticket jamboree of corporate lawyers in Westminster, justice campaigners were gathering outside Parliament. Magna Carta promised that ‘to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny .. justice’, enshrining the principle of access to justice … More Magna Carta Today? By Marjorie Mayo