Years of talk and concern have still not managed to deliver the "28.5 hectares maze of towering blocks, low-rise flats and concrete walkways that became the Aylesbury estate " from inner city blight. Now the bulldozers have been called in to demolish 2,700 homes, and hundreds of families will be put into temporary digs while new housing gets built. Read more on the slate-wiping of Europe's biggest estate. Here's a report from Jonathan Glancey. And for more info: Aylesbury New Deal for Communities (NDC)
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Also see gmanaugh's post of an article by Matt Weaver: The big squeeze
Meanwhile, from today's Independent: "Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality [issued] a warning today that the country is 'sleepwalking' into US-style racial segregation, with areas of major cities becoming 'fully fledged ghettos... We are becoming strangers to each other and leaving communities to be marooned.'
"The new Home Office commission, reflecting the CRE's alarm, will be charged with forging links with young people from Muslim and other non-Christian groups. As well as potentially tackling the roots of terrorism, it could also be asked to find ways of building bridges between ethnic minority groups living parallel lives. It will get off the ground as quickly as possible and tour throughout the country, with the aim of making contact with groups traditionally excluded from political debate."
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