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A human sculpture photography project created by an internationally-renowned choreographer is coming to east London this weekend. Stratford Living , by Willi Dorner (bodies in urban spaces) and presented by East London Dance , has been created especially for Stratford. This is the first time Will’s eye- opening living room project has been mounted in the UK. Working with east London- based professional dancers , Willi has choreographed a series of human sculptures in a range of private homes and public spaces in both the historic and more recently developed quarters of Stratford. He hopes to offer a creative exploration of urbanisation and living environments in east London today . Willi says: “ Stratford Living subverts conventional views of the everyday lived environment by making public the arranged systems that define our private spaces . “We move within a strict framework of arranged systems and regulations. They are so every day that, over time, they become invisible t...

The Late Victorian period in the United States—roughly the last third of the 19th century—produced some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the history of Western civilization . It also produced some of the most hopeless slums. In response to the crisis of industrial cities, the modern discipline of city planning emerged . The tools of this new profession helped clean up many unhealthy aspects of urban industry , but also stifled some of the best innovations of Late Victorian urbanism . By the 1920s, planners in the industrial world had established the legal authority to promulgate land-use regulations, and over the next generation, they succeeded at slowing the construction of slum housing and segregating noxious industries from incompatible activities, such as housing and office space. Through some of the same devices, however, planners curtailed some positive features of 19th- century urbanism , including the rich variety of free- form industrial development and the adaptiv...

In 2013, Randy Dillard was living with his four sons and a daughter in an apartment at 198th Street and Bainbridge in the Bronx. The windows were broken; mold and mildew streaked the walls. In the winter, Dillard’s family had to boil water on the stove to bathe; there was no heat or hot water. When the New York City Housing Authority conducted an inspection of the apartment on behalf of Section 8, the federal rent assistance program that financed Dillard ’s rental, the unit failed the test, and Section 8 stopped paying Dillard ’s landlord, demanding that he make repairs. That winter, Dillard was hospitalized for two months with a bout of emphysema; when he came out, he was served with eviction papers for nonpayment of rent. advertisement “I stood in the middle of my hallway looking around my apartment thinking: What am I going to do with my stuff?” Dillard tells Fast Company . “I told myself: I’m going to end up homeless. I’m going to wind up in a shelter.” Dillard got word of a Bron...

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