As part of the Urban Backstages project, Fani Kostourou, Cecily Chua, and Elahe Karimnia have published an article in MONU Magazine #32.
Entitled ”Benign Neglect” the article looks at how London’s railway arches provide diverse and vital affordable spaces for work due to benign negligence by landowners, developers, and the planning systems. They look at how artists, artisans, mechanics, craftsmen, and other businesses continue their productive existence within the city, as resistance to- and counter-strategy to – top-down planning policies and neoliberal market forces resonating with a Lefebvrian plea for rights to the city.
The article can be read in the print copy of the magazine – available to order here.