CASE STUDY: INNER CITY DEVELOPMENT (LONDON DOCKLANDS)

CASE STUDY: INNER CITY REDEVELOPMENT (LONDON DOCKLANDS)

Before-

• Sewage, disease, lack of sanitation.
• Housing lacked in basic ameties/slum dwellers and squatters.
• Traditional jobs were lost. Manual/unskilled, reliable but poorly paid.
• Surrounding docks were poor quality housing. Typical old city inner terraced areas.
• During the 19th century, London was the world's biggest port.
• By 1970's became derelict.
• In the 1950's, ships became bigger, and therefore unable to reach London's docklands.
• Few jobs, poor conditions, poor services.
• People forced to move away and look for work/better quality of life.
• London Dockland Development Coorporation set out to improve social, economic and envionmental conditions.

Their ambitions were...

• Improve environmental conditions by reclaiming derelict land, clearing docks to create green space.
• Improve economic conditions creating new jobs and improving transport systems.
• Improve social conditions through new housing, and recreational facilities.

After-

Economic Improvements:

• Number of jobs (1981-27,000) (2000-90,000)
• Many new firms and financial centre institution eg. Stock exchange.
• ITV…