The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is managed as a private site by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), while the former athletes’ village, now known as East Village, contains the pseudo-public spaces Victory Park and Mirabelle Gardens. As ever, it depends on who you are – and whether you see the Olympic Park as …… a city from scratchFacebook Twitter Pinterest The Olympic Village under construction in 2009. In 2003, Jason Prior, who led the implementation of the London 2012 Olympic Park, admitted development would have happened even if the Olympics hadn’t come. “The area for the Olympic Park was dismissed as an ‘urban desert’ by the ODA,” says Cheyne. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian… or as a ‘destination’As a new piece of city, the Olympic Park isn’t radical.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2017 06:16 UTC