ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Regent’s Park Estate in west Euston, London, a post-war housing complex, built in the 1950s and 1960s for the joint purposes of slum clearance and re-housing following bombing destruction during the First and Second World Wars (see Figure 5.1). The research examines the relationship of cultural and democratic identity to the built environment through an examination of the culturally and spatially divided communities living on Regent’s Park Estate. The study was made through a series of practice projects undertaken between 2000 and 2006 for Open Spaces for All, a newly defined youth activity on the local authority housing estate in central London. The project’s explorations of the contestation of the open spaces form part of a wider regeneration aim for West Euston Partnership: to support young people from diverse communities to become involved in the regeneration of their own area through direct project work.
