Paper short abstract:

This submission presents a short video that explores the anticipation of a future 'regenerated' London. It uses Google Street View imagery to explore the temporal dimension to changing urban environments questioning how demolition and regeneration is felt for those inhabiting this landscape.

Paper long abstract:

The video is produced as part of wider doctoral visual ethnographic research exploring the production and experience of place in a super-diverse neighbourhood in north-east London. This video focuses on changing place in regenerating housing estates in the neighbourhood. It uses screen capture to explore an anomaly of Google Street View in which the viewer is transported through time to old streets that cannot be re-filmed due to development hoardings. The video presents the environmental changes wrought by regeneration made visible through inaccessible streets, evoking the importance of the estate's buildings in shaping perspective and horizons. The video questions the affective dimensions of changing material landscapes and the ambivalence of these changes for the local residents.