ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the complex process of urban fabrication: the creation of new infrastructure, its investment with meaning through official promotional discourses and locally situated narratives, and the evolving patterns of social navigation and use of the built and landscaped environment. It considers how the Park was imagineered' by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). The chapter also shows how the tensions between vista' and enclosure' were negotiated in designing an organic landscape based on the principle of order-in-variety as part of a wider strategy to erase status distinctions between different housing tenure categories. It outlines a theoretical framework and methodology for analysing the strategies of inhabitation likely to be adopted by incoming residents to East Village, drawing on models of stake-holding, environmental perception and standpoint aesthetics'. The chapter investigates the configuration of cultural values, social attitudes and subject positions entailed in practices of place and community-making amongst incoming residents to East Village.
