Who owns a city? Who is a city for? The transformation of the Royal Docks. Anna Minton

In this Urban Design Group presentation delivered at the University of East London in Docklands, Dr Anna Minton focuses on the Royal Docks to ask: Who really owns a city? Who is a city actually for? 00:00 - Ground Control & Big Capital. 01:27 - Key themes. 03:35 - Ground Control - The privatised city. 04:19 - The 2008 financial crash. 05:32 - Financialisation. 06:39 - Placemaking - a critique. 10:26 - London - a new city. 11:11 - Who owns the city? 12:39 - Who is the city for? 14:02 - 1.5 million new homes? 14:51 - A productive economic model. Dr Anna Minton is a Reader in Architecture and Programme Leader of the MRes Architecture at the University of East London (UEL). Dr Minton's work investigates the interface between architecture, democracy and the city. Her research interests include the privatisation of public space, security and surveillance, the financialisation of land, property and housing, gentrification and the housing crisis. Between 2011-2014, she was the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851 Fellow in the Built Environment. She is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the 21st-century city (Penguin 2009). She is currently working on her third book, which examines the sterilisation of cities and will be published by Penguin in 2026. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Financial Times.