ABSTRACT
Behind the promise of new homes and new jobs, the word ‘regeneration’ has come to be seen as a byword for the destruction of social housing tenants, to be replaced by private development. How might this process be shaped in a way that respects the rights of local residents? Sib Trigg explains her work as part of a community organisation to create an alternative regeneration plan for a neighbourhood in east London, that rather than being imposed from above, grew out of the wishes of the people who live there, and how through this process Trigg developed the role of the ‘architect as organiser’.
