Online: Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London Lecture
Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London Lecture
Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 6.30pm
Online
Dr Paul Watt’s lecture is based on his recent book, Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents; Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London (Policy Press, 2021).
The book provides an in-depth account of how the controversial policy of public/social housing estate regeneration – in the form of demolition and rebuilding – is radically reshaping London’s housing and socio-spatial landscapes. It is based on a decade of research at over a dozen council-built housing estates in the boroughs of Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets.
The first part of the lecture traces the history of council housing in London and also examines the shifting policy rationales for estate regeneration. The second section focuses on residents’ experiences of living through estate regeneration and introduces the notion of ‘degeneration’. The third section focuses on the aftermaths of regeneration and suggests that ‘fragmented’ rather than ‘mixed’ communities are being created.
Paul Watt is Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics. He has published widely on social housing, urban regeneration, gentrification, homelessness, and the 2012 London Olympic Games. He is co-editor with Peer Smets of Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (Emerald, 2017).
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Student £4 **
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Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
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Image above: West Hendon Estate
Image credit: © Paul Watt
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