{"id":1056,"count":13,"description":"TUTORS: JAMES ALDER AND THOM BRISCO\r\n\r\nInvited Guests: Carlos Sanchez, Hafsteinn \u00c6var J\u00f3hannsson and Nielsine Otto\r\n\r\nThis unit explores the theme of civic life in the seaside setting of Margate, as we look to develop civic proposals which are rooted in local topographies, building cultures, and latent rhythms of life.\r\n\r\nCoastal towns have until recently operated within a policy background of managed decline. Combine this with vast areas of cheaply rented and derelict property, and the result is a form of \u2018coastal appeal\u2019 to inland local authorities, who have then tended to place the most vulnerable into these areas. The result is a concentration of transient communities, who through no fault of their own, further exacerbate the underling structural problems to which their distant political policymakers were originally attracted.\r\n\r\nTragedy sits uncomfortably next to the faded lights of the waltzer. It is this discomfort in plain sight that makes the coastal town a remarkable distillation of Britain\u2019s ills. The interventions of the unit are situated in discomfort, lying on the contradictory border between Cliftonville and the publicly lauded regeneration of Margate\u2019s Old Town.\r\n\r\nThe frontier nature of the coastal town is a fertile, turbulent territory, within which our civic architectural interventions critically respond.","link":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/category\/undergraduate\/year-3\/unit-2-the-frontier-town\/","name":"Unit 02: The Frontier Town","slug":"unit-2-the-frontier-town","taxonomy":"category","parent":990,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/990"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-ondisplay.co.uk\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}