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How the 2012 Olympics is selling East London short, and a 10 point plan for a more positive local legacy

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Waterlogged Allotments at Marsh Lane Fields.  Feb  2008 ©Martin SlavinWaterlogged Allotments at Marsh Lane Fields. Feb 2008 © Martin Slavin


London 2012 on Flickr

London 2012 on Flickr

Photo: © RobBeer
There is an interesting group on the photo-storage and display site 'Flickr' who are organised around the idea of taking photographs of the changing Olympic landscape.


Graffiti Artworker Blue One Off

Graffiti Artworker Blue One Off

Photo: Mike Wells


A beginners guide to the social impacts of the Olympics

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The Olympics project is large and complex. It is not easy to quickly grasp the nature of its probable impacts on the Lower Lea Valley and London. Here is a collection of four useful papers which together give a relatively short description of some of the significant impacts.