Aesthetics of Vacancy in Lockdown London

Christoph Lindner

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Christoph Lindner

Christoph Lindner is Professor of Urban Studies and Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London, where he writes about cities, visual culture, and social-spatial inequality.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Aesthetics of Vacancy in Lockdown London

Christoph Lindner introduces a six-part dossier on Lockdown Aesthetics and Gentrification. In this opening post, he argues that gentrification has accelerated in London under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aesthetics of vacancy.