Social and Spatial Politics in the Construction of Regent Street.

The essay discusses the way in which common residents of London, England, understood the concepts of urban space, property value, and politics through an examination of their contentious interactions with British royal bureaucrats engaged in the renovation of London's Regent Street. Focus is given to evicted tenants' notion that property values should be influenced by streets' and markets' traditional uses. Architect John Nash's boulevard design for Regent Street is also examined.