Wall, Ed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0505-7076 (2022) Chapter 12. From cleaning to cleansing: maintenance as an urban development practice at Paddington Waterside, London. In: Viderman, Tihomir, Knierbein, Sabine, Kränzle, Elina, Frank, Sybille, Roskamm, Nikolai and Wall, Ed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0505-7076, (eds.) Unsettled: Urban Routines, Temporalities, and Contestations. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, New York, pp. 140-152. ISBN 978-0429290237 (doi:10.4324/9780429290237-14)

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Abstract

This chapter explores unsettling and settling practices inherent in the development, management, maintenance and use of urban public spaces in Paddington Waterside, London. The chapter reflects on the work and critical discourses around the acclaimed Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!, by New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a text that presents tensions within artistic productions between development and maintenance. It questions how maintenance is employed as urban development projects unfold. Through interviews, document surveys and visual analysis the chapter examines relations between processes and products of development and practices of maintenance. At Paddington Waterside, such practices are an inseparable part of urban experience, revealing the extent to which maintenance is intertwined with contemporary urban design and associated with the goal of delivering and preserving exclusive privatized public spaces within masterplanned urban developments.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	urban development, maintenance, urban design, regeneration, social cleansing, gentrification, London
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NA Architecture N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > Advanced Urban Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES) Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Design and Creative Industries
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2025 15:07
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/35593

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