ON SITE r e v i e w 30
spring 2013
ETHICS AND PUBLICS
30 September 2009: a ceremony held at Barking Town Square, London, to mark the opening of phase II of the town’s new public space. The event gathered design professionals, council employees and politicians, yet local residents, those with the most interest in the long term success of the project, had not officially been invited. They were passing by anyway as speeches were delivered from the square’s new raised platform. As the local Member of Parliament lifted a veil off a celebratory plaque for 2008 Best Public Urban Space in Europe , a man came up to me and asked who she was. I answered, he shrugged his shoulders, smirked and walked on.
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