GOING FOR GOLD

摘要

Seventeen days. A 500-acre site. £8.3bn worth of construction. The 2012 Olympics will make over a corner of east London with sports arenas, an athletes' village and all the other buildings needed to host a major international sporting event. In the process, speculators from Hackney homeowners to large-scale landowners stand to make a killing out of the regeneration activity. But these are the short-term gains. The bigger question is whether the Olympics can have a lasting impact on regeneration, not only in the Lower Lea Valley, but further afield - and whether all of the change will be for the better.