Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
Tower Hamlets Has 197 Pieces of Street Art, Hackney Has 106: Counting the Walls of East London and Asking Who Did the Counting
A property company’s ranking, reported by Time Out on 13 September, puts the two boroughs that share Shoreditch at the top of the London street…
From a 47-Storey Tower to 500 Homes and a Park: The Long Education of the Goodsyard
The derelict railway land between Shoreditch High Street and Brick Lane has been fought over for a decade, and the scheme now moving forward is…
A Data Centre on Brick Lane? The Truman Brewery Fight Now Rests With a Minister
The old brewery that became the heart of the area’s markets and music could get servers, flats and shops, and the council’s refusal has been…
Silicon Roundabout Was a Joke. Then a Prime Minister Heard It
The name for the tech cluster at Old Street was coined as a wisecrack and adopted as national policy, and nearly two decades on it…
The Roundabout That Is No Longer a Roundabout
Old Street’s notorious gyratory has been rebuilt after years of works, and whether it is now safer, better or merely different depends on whether you…
In Praise of the Ugly Office Block
Planners defending some post-war buildings off Curtain Road used the word ecosystem, and I think they have put their finger on the thing Shoreditch keeps…
The Officers Said No, the Councillors Said Wait: A Nineteen-Storey Argument on Curtain Road
A big office scheme in the middle of Shoreditch was recommended for refusal by Hackney’s own planners, and what happened next is a lesson in…
Who Is Shoreditch For? Banglatown, the City Next Door and the Argument That Never Ends
Squeezed between some of London’s poorest streets and its richest square mile, the neighbourhood has always been a crossroads, and the traffic is running one…
Eleven Thousand Jobs and Five Hundred Homes: Reading the Council’s Plan for Shoreditch
Hackney’s new blueprint for the neighbourhood promises a great deal of office space and not many places to live, and the ratio tells you who…
Stocks, Slums and Brick Kilns: A Walk Through the Shoreditch That Was Here Before the Coffee
A council walking guide is the best free tour in E2, and following it turns up a whipping post, a vanished rookery and the reason…
