Ordinary Streets: an ethnography from local to global

Ordinary Streets was an ethnographic and visual exploration of street spaces, economies, and cultures carried out between 2011 and 2013. The research involved issues of immigration, adaptation, and urban multi-culture.

The street, part of the city, was understood in the framework of this investigation associated with the LSE Cities, as a common urban currency that transmits direct forms of exchange and expression, a space made up of “ordinary” citizens, with volatile and convivial capacity.

The project aimed to analyse the street in ways that would have meaning for politics and urban planning, as well as for the interests around immigration and the socio-spatial “landscapes” that encompass local and global realities.

Peckham Rye Lane was the focus of this research, an intensely active retail strip in South London, appropriated by successive waves of immigrants and shared with established residents. The fieldwork started in January 2012 and a team of researchers with a background in sociology, architecture, and international affairs that researched, designed, and observed the street.

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2011

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LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science