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1 INTRODUCTION This paper explores how collaborations between geographers and performance artists can create opportunities for present-day communities to participate in constructing and reflecting on contested planning histories and their legacies.

Introduction …it's not just where we wake up one morning, and we say, “Okay, you know what? We're going to evict 4000 families.” You know? There's … there's a lot of planning that goes with it.

Introduction: The Workhouse in the Atlantic World In 1601, successive attempts to rationalise almsgiving in Britain were crystallised in the Elizabethan Poor Law, consolidating a system of poor relief that was to shape Britain's welfare apparatus for the next 400 years.