Dereliction is an opportunity
Lord Geoffrey Howe’s London’s Docklands in 1978, how dereliction created an opportunity, after his speech to Bow Group of Conservatives, and went on as Chancellor to produce an economic development zone which gave birth to the Canary Wharf financial centre.
Forty years after Lord Howe’s speech derelict east London including Poplar, Bow, Lime House, Stratford are transformed to a money spinner, where residential block have mushroomed near the 2012 Olympic site.
The innovative controversial music of 21st century is Grime.
Grime replaced the garage music with Dizzy Rascal’s Boy in da Corner winning the Mercury prize.
Grime is Jamaican-British and not African-American.
In Inner City Pressure, Dan Hancox, gives sympathetic account of grime and the evolution of the city that inspired it.
Skepta said “it is all born out of poverty and pain.” Stromzy’s protest at this year’s Brit awards about Grenfell Tower fire highlighting tolerance and neglect, which prompted to wake up building control regulations review.
Hancox reveals the essence behind an 1883 painting of Thames by William Wylie titled “ Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Floating Tide”.
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox, William Collins £ 20, 336 pages.