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Balfron Tower is a 27-story brutalist high-rise built in 1967 in the Poplar district of East London. Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger realized his utopian ideal of collective housing through this large public house. Interestingly, two months before the building was put into use in 1968, the architect and his wife Ursula moved into the top floor of the building. He launched an activity similar to performance art, called sociological experiment, which mainly invited residents from layer to floor to the top floor to participate in a champagne party, recording the residents' views of their new home, and then revising their design.
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Thatcher came to power, the neoliberal capital operation of the
community security housing market collapsed
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to welcome the London 2012 Olympics, in 2008, the "new" round of urban renewal plans included the renovation of Balfron Tower Rectification. The main promotion agencies are Tower Hamlets Borough Council and Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association. What’s interesting is that in 2010, the housing association notified all 99 “social security” tenants living in the building to move out. What’s worse is that due to the overall socioeconomic downturn, these tenants may be renovated after the building is completely refurbished. No longer have the right to come back and rent.
As a result, the tenants began to unite and use various information media platforms, such as local newspapers or various levels of democratic representatives to protest against such unfair decisions, indicating that they have the right to enter into discussions and decisions about deciding whether to live or stay.
From October 2010 to February 2015, the Housing Association in the Poplar area still retained the previous decision that "the original tenant may not have the right to return to live", but provided tenants with assistance in relocating to another place.
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about simple construction materials in the extended reading . . . Ideal collective life, good interpersonal communication and future cities. Unfortunately, the structure of the building heralds the inclination and injustice of the social structure. The inability to subvert the social class has been clearly implied in the specific spatial pattern and traffic flow of the building. The fantasy of capital, like a peach, slowly rots to reveal its rotten roughness. Utopia is a temporary imagination, a feasting group sex, an incredible nostalgia. The whole process of watching the movie is the experience of Kubrick's copycat film. The story is not fully told, the connection is too abrupt, and the bridge imitation is generally a hard British joke. Thatcher declared ""There is only one economic system in the world, and that is capitalism." Oh yes, yes, at most it is capitalism in terms of neoliberism.
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