Dr Ed Brookes E.Brookes@hull.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Arts, Heritage and Liveability: Assessing the effectiveness of community arts and heritage initiatives in Kingston Upon Hull to build urban liveability in precarious places
People Involved
Professor Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Environmental Humanities
Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image (2024)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (online). Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241233700This article contributes to cultural geography’s continued interest in exploring how images and photographic practices have shaped representations and engagements with architectural space. Using the Robin Hood Gardens Estate – a Brutalist social hous... Read More about Robin Hood Gardens & The Brutalist Image.
Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings (2023)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (2023). Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(3), 391-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2230046Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) was a brutalist social housing estate in Poplar, East London, built in 1972 by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and since 2017 has been undergoing demolition to be turned into luxury flats as part of the Blackwal... Read More about Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings.