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On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community

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On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community
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Built throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the Aylesbury Estate is an enormous public housing complex in South East London that at its peak, boasted 11,000 residents. Like other social projects of this kind, Aylesbury has struggled with violence and vandalism throughout its run, and in 2005, local officials decided to demolish the estate and rebuild in phases rather than rehabilitate the existing structures.



Living and working in South East London for nearly four decades, Harriet Mena Hill wa

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