The thing I find most confusing about this new glass London is the question of who it’s for. The attraction of Soho is its independent shops and broad, homely sleaze. If the businesses that are its backbone are priced out, who will want to visit? Back home, past Old Street, there are “apartment blocks” climbing up the sides of closed-down strip clubs. But who will live in them? Isn’t the appeal of east London today its promise of grit? Of cheap bagels and stubborn subcultures, immigrants from Bangladesh, from eastern Europe, from art schools everywhere. Who are the millionaires who will want to live here if living here means these things will disappear?. theguardian/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/18/losing-london-we-love-eva-wiseman
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:50:51 +0000