Shoreditch

Question 1

What type of scheme is it?

Answer 1

Top down

Question 2

Who lead it?

Answer 2

London County Council

Question 3

What did they do?

Answer 3

Create council housing & social housing for working class to live in to replace the slums that were there.

Question 4

When did this happen?

Answer 4

1893

Question 5

What was the negative of this?

Answer 5

Only 11 out of 5000 slum dwellers lived here and the rest got pushed out to live somewhere else so spreading the problem (Gentrification) Hence it solved problem in Shoreditch but created a larger national problem.
People without creative skills or not suited for quaternary sector are marginalised.

Question 6

What was the benefit of the scheme?

Answer 6

Woking class were given somewhere to live so stopped protests.
Also encouraged ‘hip’ quirky urban shops and companies to start up in Shoreditch and attracted creative business people.
Opportunities created for creative high skilled quaternary sector workers.

Question 7

What are some keywords that can be used?

Answer 7

Social Cleansing

Gentrification