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Vacant land in London: a planning tool to create land for growth

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  • Sonia Freire Trigo

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Vacant land is a widespread urban phenomenon that has been problematised as a waste of a scarce resource, which needs to be brought back to use. The consensus around this belief has been almost unanimous, despite the contradiction between the idea of scarcity and that of vacancy. This paper explores the assumptions underpinning this contradiction to point to new ways of addressing the ‘vacant land problem’. Drawing on the work of Lefebvre and Massey, the paper suggests a dialectical framing of vacant land to understand how its socially constructed nature shapes its transformation. The paper reveals a static understanding of urban change behind the conceptualisation of Battersea Power Station and Silvertown Quays as ‘bad places’, which in turn legitimises and shapes their transformation. The paper argues for a re-problematisation of ‘vacant land’, whereby its function as a planning tool for growth can be challenged.

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  • Sonia Freire Trigo, 2020. "Vacant land in London: a planning tool to create land for growth," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 261-276, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3:p:261-276
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2019.1585231
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    1. van Heur, Bas, 2024. "Urban vacancy in Europe: A synthetic review and research agenda," SocArXiv 3kmtx, Center for Open Science.
    2. Raco, Mike & Ward, Callum & Brill, Frances & Sanderson, Danielle & Freire-Trigo, Sonia & Ferm, Jess & Hamiduddin, Iqbal & Livingstone, Nicola, 2022. "Towards a virtual statecraft: housing targets and the governance of urban housing markets," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 114315, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Zhang, Wei & Li, Yuqing & Zheng, Caigui, 2023. "The distribution characteristics and driving mechanism of vacant land in Chengdu, China: A perspective of urban shrinkage and expansion," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    4. Thiago Corrêa Jacovine & Kaio Nogueira & Camila Nastari Fernandes & Gabriel Marques da Silva, 2022. "Evidence-Based Planning: A Multi-Criteria Index for Identifying Vacant Properties in Large Urban Centres," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 285-298.

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