Jonathan Glancey Investigates Europes Largest And Most Controversial Regeneration Initiative The Tha

mes Gateway Project.

This fast track urban development is set to transform the South East of England forever, creating a string of townships and rejuvenating industrial land on both sides of the river from the Tower of London to the sea.

This feature describes the ambitions of the Thames Gateway project.

It explores how such a complicated and far reaching master plan (the biggest urban intervention in Britain for decades) came into being, and answers some of the urgent questions that are being asked of it.

Is the Thames Gateway a work of enlightened planning or more urban sprawl?

JONATHAN GLANCEY investigates Europes largest and most controversial regeneration initiative the Thames Gateway Project. This fast track urban development is set to transform the South East of England forever, creating a string of townships and rejuvenating industrial land on both sides of the river from the Tower of London to the sea.

This feature describes the ambitions of the Thames Gateway project. It explores how such a complicated and far reaching master plan (the biggest urban intervention in Britain for decades) came into being, and answers some of the urgent questions that are being asked of it. Is the Thames Gateway a work of enlightened planning or more urban sprawl?