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Notes on the potential of void

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  • Francesco Sebregondi

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The Heygate estate is stuck, not only in its process of demolition and reconstruction, but also in a timeworn debate confronting its narrated past with the speculative future about to replace it. In the paper, the focus is shifted to the material presence of the place today--as a void in the bustling city. Turned into an overactive filming location, the Heygate's void helped constructing a ruined image of the council estate. Its derelict façades serve today as a valorising background for the shiny new developments that surround it; in the landscape thereby constructed, the estate's failure and its promised solution are told together. However, the Heygate's void is also a place--a suspended, indeterminate one. Rousing us from our accustomed urban experience, voids like the Heygate are propitious places to start thinking and engaging in a transformation of the city, beyond its mere regeneration.

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  • Francesco Sebregondi, 2012. "Notes on the potential of void," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 337-344, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:337-344
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687873
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