RIGHT TO THE CITY: AN ANGLIA SQUARE FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged Anglia Square, Angrier Square, capitalist class, cities, class politics, Columbia Threadneedle, David Harvey, featured, gentrification, Grenfell tower, Henri Lefebvre, heritage, housing, local campaign, norwich, Norwich City Council, redevelopment, right to the city, Robert Jenrick, urban, urban regeneration, Weston Homes, working class.

by Yali Banton-Heath

For the past 8 years the future of Anglia Square – a 1960’s-built shopping complex in Norwich’s north city – has been a contentious local concern. In 2018 Norwich City Council approved a £250 million development planning application submitted by asset management group Columbia Threadneedle, who bought the site in 2012, and property developers Weston Homes. The proposal included plans for a new shopping centre, hotel, cinema, and 20-storey apartment block. After receiving over 700 objections, which collectively led to a government inquiry, earlier this month Secretary of State Robert Jenrick officially rejected the plans, on the basis that they “did not protect and enhance the heritage assets of the city”.

ARCHITECTURES OF POWER OR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #rhodesmustfall, Apartheid, architecture, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, building, colonialism, communards, culture, fascism, Henri Lefebvre, Hindu, imperialism, India, Islam, islamophobia, monument, Mughal, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, power, Rhodes Must Fall, superiority, Taj Mahal, Taksim Square, UNESCO, US, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath.

by Scott Mclaughlan

Despite being considered one of the “seven wonders of the world”, the Taj Mahal was bizarrely absent from a tourism booklet produced this summer by the state government of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Completed between 1631 and 1648, the Taj Mahal is perhaps the finest existing example of Mughal architecture, considered ‘the jewel of Muslim art in India’, in 1983 it was designated a UNESCO world heritage site.

Its international prestige notwithstanding, a storm has been brewing around the famous monument: it has been the scene of regular protests and the focus of an increasingly prominent political campaign to marginalise its national and cultural significance.Continue Reading

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