Links tagged with “shoreditch”
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How London’s Silicon Roundabout dream turned into a nightmare | WIRED UK
One of the suggested tags for this article as I add it to Pinboard is “corruption”.
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New Residential Tower For City Road Approved
Blimey, that’s huge! The current half-built towers (on the left) already look oppressively tall for this spot.
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How London’s Silicon Roundabout really got started — European technology news
Brilliant - really glad this got written up. Matt Biddulph’s timeline of how “Silicon Roundabout” became a thing.
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00:/Blog - Silicon Roundabout’s ‘Start-up City’
Ugh. How do you take the really ugly Old Street roundabout and make it even more ugly and hideous and somewhere you really wouldn’t want to be? Like this! (via @antimega)
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Silicon Roundabout Roundup
Alex is tracking the ups and downs of events in the area via Tumblr.
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W. Brian Arthur vs Silicon Roundabout, ‘Start-Up Britain’ and other shake-and-bake approaches « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones on how you can’t just conjure an area like Shoreditch out of thin air and tax incentives. These things — locations, industries, technologies — take time and long-term ideas.
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Thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
Lovely kind of cross-section of psycho-geographic-neighbourhoods or something. I’d love to see lots more of these. (via Tom Taylor)
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YouTube - Being a Dickhead’s Cool
It’s like Nathan Barley - The Video, ten years on. Very good.
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Facebook | SAVE THE FOUNDRY CAMPAIGN !!! The Foundry - re-house/re-locate
You can have all the fancy urban theories you like, but I’m increasingly thinking that if you don’t own lots of expensive property, you can’t control anything.
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London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground’s Blog
Inside those tube carriages you can see on top of a viaduct in Shoreditch. Shame the video’s no longer available. (via Blech)
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Interview: ‘Eine’ and the letters he paints on east London shop shutters | I Shot the Deputy
I’ve been meaning to look up the story behind the letters I cycle past every day, and a photo by Alice prompted me to do so.