• ‘The kind of place planners have dreamed of’: the London Olympics site 10 years on

    ‘The kind of place planners have dreamed of’: the London Olympics site 10 years on
    Anish Kapoor’s big red tower remains a spectacular eyesore, but 10 years on from the 2012 Games, the old railway lands of Stratford are a largely thriving new urban district that few other host cities can rivalWhat have the Olympics ever done for us? Nothing, apart from the 226-hectare park that attracts six million visitors a year, the magnificent sporting facilities, the tens of thousands of new jobs, the decontamination and opening up of ex-industrial land, the schools, the cultural ins

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