Paper short abstract:

Contemporary city with the high-speed transformations is similar to a multicultural pot, where dwellers create new meanings of the city by using alternative patterns of megapolis life. The paper focuses on re/constuction of meanings linked with East London places, creatated by new immigrants.

Paper long abstract:

Contemporary city with the high-speed transformations is similar to a multicultural pot, where urban population break down the old images and create the new meanings of the city. This paper focuses on re/construction of meanings linked with East London places, creatated by new immigrants. The paper presents the fieldwork results conducted by the author in England in 2017-2019. We intend to explore the communication processes of small Lithuanian immigrants community in East London. The main questions asked are: How do immigrants construct and deconstruct their urban areas, public and private places? How do they create the new images and meanings of the city? How do they transform public places into recreation places for calendar festivals or other national feasts? How do they add new dimensions for abondoned and past recal places of the city? Why are the following abandoned places and urban areas with bad reputation revivified and gain advantage in the context of megapolis? In summary, East London, never considered an attractive part of the city, has become not only the most popular residential area of East European immigrants, but the place of their recreativity and spiritual life which unfolds by starting new religious movements. Immigrants enculturate some places of the megapolis such as public squares, markets and parks, as well as their private residential areas and transform them into small agricultural islands with alternative urban forms from DIY urbanism to a makeshift city.