LIVING AND WORKING IN YEOVILLE

Third year planning students, under the facilitation of Sarah Charlton, conducted a research project on Housing in Yeoville. Their point of departure was to connect people's economic activity with their place of residence - not starting with building, but rather starting with people working in Yeoville public space - notably the street. Indeed, high levels of unemployment mean that people often have to create their own activity - and they do so from the main place of stability they can find - their residential place. Hence the multiple conversions of residential space into economic space, and the blurred lines developing between the two, that can be read negatively (informalisation of the neighborhoods; nuisance: noise, pollution or littering; contribution to increasing the housing shortage), or positively (mixed land uses, ability to survive and sometimes to grow, resilience). The students project however adopted the point of view of residents-cum-workers, showing without romanticism how Yeoville provided both affordable housing and the possibility of living from their economic activity: a place in the city.

A project facilitated by Sarah Charlton

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