Urban Design Scholarships

摘要

It's market day and Walthamstow High Street is all hustle and bustle. The street stalls are busy with a chattering throng of shoppers and wanderers cruising the wares on offer. Though there's little clue of its existence here, 10 minutes down the road is Lea Valley Regional Park, London's largest metropolitan park. Joe Morris' site - Walthamstow Marshes - sits at the base of the upper Lea Valley between Walthamstow and Clapton Common. Abundant in fields and waterways, its post-industrial legacy is visible in its patches of degraded land and crisscrossing railways and canals that fragment the landscape. Joe Morris, his Design for London (DfL) mentor Eleanor Fawcett and I head down the high street. Walking roughly west, we leave the shopping area and cross into Coppermill Lane, a wide Victorian terraced street.