How Not to Make a City, with Charmaine Brown, Anna Minton, Betty Owoo, and Ash Rao

09/12/2025 1h 25min
How Not to Make a City, with Charmaine Brown, Anna Minton, Betty Owoo, and Ash Rao

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Episode Synopsis

How can city makers renew urban spaces in ways that benefit existing residents, rather than displacing them? And how have communities organised to resist their displacement?

On 28 November, TTiN put these questions and more to a panel of academics and practitioners: Charmaine Brown, community activist in Peckham and Lecturer at the University of Greenwich; Anna Minton, journalist, author, and Reader at the University of East London; Betty Owoo, Senior Design Officer in the Greater London Authority's Design Unit; and Ash Rao, urban designer and planner on the GLA’s Regeneration and Planning team.

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