• Michael Edwards The Bartlett, UCL, Speaker

• Massimo De Angelis Business School, UEL, Discussant

The Thames Gateway Project: for better or for worse?

You are cordially invited to the London East Research Institute’s Fourth Annual Docklands Lecture.

Michael Edwards is an economist and planner working on property markets and their relationship with urban planning and development systems at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning. He has recently been active in critical debates on the London Plan and is joint chair of the King’s Cross Railway Lands Group which has been active for 20 years in mediating conflicting pressures on the edge of central London.

The Fourth Annual Docklands Lecture sets the context in which major development in the Thames Estuary is widely seen as a solution to many of the capital region’s problems. Professor Edwards critically examines the interpretations of housing crisis offered many current analysts and politicians including Gordon Brown.

Contrasting scenarios for Thames Gateway are presented, and lessons are drawn from the history of urban development in the UK and internationally. The lecture draws on a chapter Michael Edwards has contributed to the forthcoming book, London’s Turning: the Prospect of Thames Gateway, edited by Phil Cohen and Mike Rustin, London, Ashgate 2007.

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