Brent Council's plan to rebuild 1,200 social homes in South Kilburn

摘要

The South Kilburn Estate in the London Borough of Brent had been failing. It had a reputation for high levels of crime, taxi drivers refused to go through it, and it was once home to Man Booker Prize-winning author Zadie Smith, who dubbed it 'an area where the only constant is change'. A sea of prefabricated concrete towers and bland low-rise blocks, it wasn't a walkable estate. Many of its original roads had become blocked off by ill-thought-out consequential development and vast areas had turned into no-go zones. But now, through a 15-year-long regeneration scheme, the council and its team of masterplanners- including the likes of PRP Architects, Alison Brooks, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands-aretrying to bring back the street. They are trying to create places where people want to be and, in the words of the council, 'create a real sense of place and belonging'.