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- Title
Futures past.
- Authors
Mann, William
- Abstract
For the 2012 Olympics, London was announced to us in images and words which combined sophisticated rhetoric and crude simplification. Two related promises emerged from the compact between design and politics: to replace a fragmented, neglected and polluted area with a smooth, harmonious new city district; and to bequeath an enduring foundation, a ‘legacy’, to the future. The references to ecology and inequality can be identified with their early twenty-first century moment, but the spatial strategy of a city in a park was something of a throwback to the twentieth and nineteenth centuries: a techno-pastoral in which nature redeems the city from its fallen state. In short: a vision of the future inherited from the past.
- Subjects
LEA Valley (England); OLYMPIC Games (30th : 2012 : London, England); OLYMPIC architecture; LANDSCAPE design; LAND bridges
- Publication
ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 4, p302
- ISSN
1359-1355
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1017/S1359135515000044