adiZones and Lo-Lifes

This week I attended Regeneration Games, a talk at FreeWord on the branding and aesthetic ideology of Olympic-driven regeneration. Alberto Duman organised the event and presented three 'artifacts' of regeneration: the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, a promotional PDF selling the regeneration of Newham to Chinese investors, and 'adiZones'. The author and critic Owen Hatherley was then invited to respond to 'adiZones', a small development project intended on delivering part of the “Olympic Legacy” in the form of better community sports provision.
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...[some translations are available] some beautiful pictures, from the 1990's Romanian Revolution here!
Golani = Rude/Barbarian People [Illiescu accused the demonstration people as being golani]