Since the industrial revolution metropolis have been wildly expanding driven by the influence of capitalistic economies.
By exploiting every single square yard, all the requalification plans do not bare in mind the social inequality that these projects involve.
London, or better the East of London, hosted the Olympic Games in 2012.
A massive requalification plan started in 2008 aimed to improve the quality of life in the borough of Newham, where the Olympic Park would have been built up.
Over the rampage of the Thatcherism East London saw the first attempt of requalification in the Docklands with the construction of the new financial district in Canary Wharf.
Industries, the working class, and low-income inhabitants have always featured the East of London. It is the most multicultural borough of London, where people from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Great Britain live together.
A social cleansing is currently going on in the borough of Newham, pushing out of its borders people that have always lived there for generations.
Too many families saw their council houses first vacated and than demolished to make room to new shiny and unaffordable houses, or they had to assist to the disappearing of the public spaces for private fortress.
The project made untill now have described what has been happening since an year after the Olympic Games and what its legacy is causing along the River Lea Valley. Therefore how the buildings made for the Olympics have altered the landscape in the Lea Valley and its social impact in the borough of Newham.
