Showing posts with label Olympic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympic. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2012

London, three times Olympic




About that, what efforts are required in the transformation of the Olympic Centre of the poor, backward and depressed Stratford area of ​​London, more summarily and figures tell the details.

Here are some. When clearing an area of ​​2.5 square kilometers in Stratford east London - the same, which now stretches Olympic Park - it was necessary to demolish the 220 commercial buildings, houses and other facilities. With the overwhelming majority of those who worked and lived on the future site of Olympic construction, relocation and compensation was able to negotiate amicably. But there were those who stood up to the last: among them - co-op garden plots and the oldest in London factory for smoked salmon. To move them from their homes, in 2007, had a warrant to use force to acquire land.