City Life, estate living and lockdown

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Caleb Femi was young people's poetry laureate for London. Katie Beswick and Julia King research the way we use our streets. Irit Katz studies how the urban environment is shaped by crisis. How has the pandemic changed our experience of urban space and what is the future for cities like London? Matthew Sweet hosts a debate. Caleb Femi's Poor - a collection of poetry and photographs of the lives of young black men in Peckham - is published in November 2020. Katie Beswick is the author of Social Housing in Performance: The English Council Estate on and off Stage and teaches at the University of Exeter Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities looking at "Streets for All" https://www.lse.ac.uk/cities Irit Katz lectures in Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge This episode is part of the programming for BBC Radio 3's Residency at London's Southbank Centre which is broadcasting live concerts and tying into their talks and literature series of online events Inside Out. You might also be interested in How architecture shapes society: Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Edwin Heathcote recorded at the LSE Festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fp0d The council estate in culture hears from Katie Beswick, artists George Shaw and Kader Attia and writer Dreda Say Mitchell https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003596 Ricky Burdett and Judith Rodin debated cities and resilience in 2015 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yb7kd Producer: Torquil MacLeod