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One of Tom Russell’s first announcements in January 2008, a month after his appointment as Chief Executive of the Legacy Directorate, was news about which of the six shortlisted master-planning teams had won the LDA contract to come up with an overall vision, detailed landscape design ideas, and, eventually, planning applications, and for what the Olympic Park could look like in future and be used for, post-2012, in legacy mode. It was no great surprise, bearing in mind the London/Manchester connection, that the winning consortium was led by EDAW, the landscape architects’ firm known for having successfully transformed Manchester City Centre after the devastation of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in 1996 and celebrated for the early master-planning work, commissioned by the LDA in 2003, in preparation for London’s Olympic bid.
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Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area Planning Framework. http://legacy.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning/docs/lowerleavalley-pt1.pdf Accessed 15th May 2015.
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For a visual sense of the evolution of the Illustrative Masterplan, Output C, see pages 164, 165, 174 & 179 of the PhD thesis of Juliet Davis http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/382/1/JulietDavisPhD.pdf. It is no longer possible to access these maps online, and the analysis given in this PhD, of the evolution of the spatial development of park plans, is invaluable.
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Evans, G. (2016). Future-Scaping. In: London's Olympic Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29073-1_3
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