Anna Minton

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and the author of Ground Control. A new edition, with a chapter on the true legacy of the Olympics, is published by Penguin.

Olympic village or private new town?

London’s Olympic construction projects are shrouded in the most obtuse vagueries of UK planning legislation. But the implications of this go far beyond urban development – revealing the increasing subservience of representative democracy to the whims of private capital.

By Anna Minton

/ 23 May 2012