This document summarizes a conference titled "Overcoming London's Barriers" that took place on June 21, 2018. It includes presentations from various speakers on approaches to overcoming divisions in cities from their experiences in London and other European cities. Breakout sessions after the main presentations discussed proposals for reconnecting communities divided by barriers in London and the London borough of Poplar.
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Future of London 2018 Conference (mid-morning panels & Proposals for London)
1. Overcoming London’s Barriers
Conference
Thursday, 21 June 2018
#mendbarriers
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53. ANY LESSONS FOR LONDON?
BUILDING BRIDGES – ONE STEP AT THE TIME
54. URBAN SILENCE 54
LESSON ONE: COLLABORATION FOR A JOINT FUTURE
► 1980s Nicosia Master Plan
1980s – Master Plan
1974 conflict
2005 – New Vision
2018
2015 - Plan
20001990 2010
… commitment to plan a joint city
… to never consolidate divisions
55. URBAN SILENCE 55
LESSON ONE: COLLABORATION FOR A JOINT FUTURE
1980s – Master Plan
1974 conflict 201820001990 2010
… to keep a balance of investment
… to safeguard each other’s assets
Asset restorationSafeguard mechanisms
56. URBAN SILENCE 56
LESSON TWO: PLANT ‘SEED PROJECTS’
► Bringing people back
► Working on both sides
► Softening tensions across
communities
1974 conflict
2008 – Ledra Street Pedestrian Crossing
201820001990 2010
THE FRIENDLIEST OF BORDERS
57. URBAN SILENCE 57
LESSON TWO: PLANT ‘SEED PROJECTS’
1974 conflict
2005 – 2012 Building Rehabilitation
201820001990 2010
BRINGING ABANDONED AREAS INTO USE
59. URBAN SILENCE 59
LESSON THREE: LEARN TO LET GO!
1974 conflict
2014…. People move back
201820001990 2010
HOUSES AND THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY
60. URBAN SILENCE 60
LESSON THREE: LEARN TO LET GO!
1974 conflict
2014…. People move back
201820001990 2010
BUSINESSES
61. URBAN SILENCE 61
LESSON THREE: LEARN TO LET GO!
1974 conflict
2014…. People move back
201820001990 2010
PEOPLE
Andreas –
came with £1, now owns a café
Demetra and Kyriakos –
come to have a good time
Petros –
thinks it is a modern attraction
Viota –
her business now has a future
62. BUILDING BRIDGES
ACROSS COMMUNITIES –
LESSONS FOR LONDON
Collaboration for a joint future
… long term, non-stop
‘Seed Projects’
and bring people back
Let go!
Flexibility and ‘blind eye’ for a purpose
Source: Andreas Papallis, Thesis Project Terra Nullis, University of Cambridge, fieldwork 2015
65. Overcoming London’s Barriers
Breakout sessions
#mendbarriers
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London Bridge tour: departing from hotel lobby
Proposals for London: Tower B+C (this room)
Proposals for Poplar: Tower A
124. Proposal: a TfL sponsored coordinated London
wide catalogue of, and strategy for, left over
space for community benefit and to (re) connect
communities
130. Conclusions
In London we are short of available and
affordable space;
We have space that divides communities
physically and emotionally;
Let’s plan this space in a coordinated way
and facilitate urban mending, with
connecting communities at the forefront of
our thinking.
Under the flyover: