So there a few CCTVs cameras and an increase in private property - since the public seems not to use it anyway - along a river ?
London is becoming a city for the elite bankers and capitalists, everyone knows it. The world is a massive place. Rather than working like peasants I suggest to the people complaining to have some dignity and create wealth somewhere else where they think is a much fairer place.
I am slightly frustrated that so many young people spend their prime years enriching a city that cares little for them and takes so much wealth from them.
I honestly don't even know how to begin to explain this to you.
There are highly valuable pieces of land (as happens with nice waterfronts) that developers have promised to make accessible to everyone in exchange for being able to develop there. They then make those places as unappealing as they can to the public by using misleading architectural cues, being less tahn helpful in enabling the access they promised, or even having guards flat-out lie about the public's access to a space. If this does not seem like a bad thing to you, and I mean this with no malice, I don't believe there is enough common ground between you and I for me to be able to explain why it is.
If you think this is just a London thing, it's happening in San Francisco (which, yes, has similar issues with inequality) [1] and is an ongoing issue along the entire coast of California where the beach is public up to (at least) the high tide mark, and often with trails to get to it too. But landowners there also put up fake signs, block off access paths, and hire security guards to lie about whether the general public is allowed there or not.
This is also an issue in Oslo. Traditionally (and currently) the population has the right of assess 2 meters inland from the high tide mark. People with houses (typically elite suburbs) on the waterfront have tried to stop this as they don't want someone walking across their front lawn or parking their boat there.
Given Norways egalitarian society, I was more surprised the people pursuing this felt it was worth their effort given the likelihood of success.
“The idea that London’s spaces have always been open and democratic is a myth. (...) It took a long, hard fight to bring streets under public control, and there is a constant push-back against it – if people aren’t galvanised and engaged with these spaces then they will slip away into private hands.”
So there a few CCTVs cameras and an increase in private property - since the public seems not to use it anyway - along a river ?
London is becoming a city for the elite bankers and capitalists, everyone knows it. The world is a massive place. Rather than working like peasants I suggest to the people complaining to have some dignity and create wealth somewhere else where they think is a much fairer place.
I am slightly frustrated that so many young people spend their prime years enriching a city that cares little for them and takes so much wealth from them.