Thamesmead (1970s)

[pulstar]

That's what I am talking about. Brutalist architecture is modern architecture.

I was comparing it to buildings made after 1990's.

[The Lawspeaker]

I was comparing it to buildings made after 1990's.

I place the line at 1945.

[Tooting Carmen]

Thamesmead in particular, and the Borough of Greenwich in general, have for a long time been among London's poorest areas. Moreover, unlike Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Islington etc., Greenwich has if anything been getting even poorer, precisely because more and more people cannot afford to live in those increasingly gentrified aforementioned inner-city boroughs that used to be low-income themselves, and move out there instead. (Other boroughs which are also increasingly seeing an influx of London's poor and not-so-rich middle classes are Barking & Dagenham, Enfield and Waltham Forest).

[The Lawspeaker]

Thamesmead in particular, and the Borough of Greenwich in general, have for a long time been among London's poorest areas. Moreover, unlike Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Islington etc., Greenwich has if anything been getting even poorer, precisely because more and more people cannot afford to live in those increasingly gentrified aforementioned inner-city boroughs that used to be low-income themselves, and move out there instead. (Other boroughs which are also increasingly seeing an influx of London's poor and not-so-rich middle classes are Barking & Dagenham, Enfield and Waltham Forest).

In other words: a dumping ground.