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A team of acting persons undertook four walking sessions within Elephant & Castle, a conflicting, under gentrification, neighbourhood of London, each day from April 28 to May 1, 2009. During these sessions, utterances were collected using various methods (“arcaeological” street findings, attendance in tenants associations and apartment building meetings, informal discussions with residents, readings in autonomous spaces, specific performances) as they intersect with fragments of Roussel’s novel Locus Solus. Data collected are at the same time transferred to the wiki-archive. A specific action at the garage doors of the interior courtyard of Aylesbury block* Gayhurst 1-61 was one of the collecting methods, producing a series of in-situ conversations with residents of the Estate. The conversations were collected as part of the walking session works.

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“In the UK this new urban colonialism, embedded in government policy on social mixing and the urban renaissance (see Lees, 2008), seeks to socially cleanse British city centres, what Wacquant (2008: 199) calls the ‘literal and figurative effacing of the proletariat in the city…’. In London the Aylesbury Estate – the largest social housing estate in Europe – is in the process of being demolished, as is its low income, ethnically and socially mixed community of council tenants, right-to-buy tenants, and asylum seekers, and being rebuilt as ‘socially mixed’ housing. On the day after New Labour’s general election victory in 1997 Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Aylesbury where he made a speech highlighting the estate’s residents as Britain’s ‘poorest’ and the ‘forgotten’; many of whom ‘play[ed] no formal role in the economy and were dependent on benefits’ (Blair, 2007). Very quickly afterwards the Aylesbury was given New Deal for Communities status and studies began on how the estate cools be redeveloped. They were given £ 56.2m over 10 years in order to lever in a further £ 400m as part of stock transfer to housing association tenure. But the local community rejected the stock transfer of the Aylesbury from Southwark Council in December 2001 because for the most part they were satisfied with their estate. But Southwark Council decided that the estate was too expensive to refurbish and that demolition was the most cost effective solution. They set about persuading the tenants that the estate was structurally unsound and not a pleasant place to live.” (Introduction, The Gentrification Reader, ed. L. Lees, T. Slater, E. Wyly)