MY JERICHO
This meeting was held on April 14, 2021
Danny, conceived in Jericho, is Oxford University’s ‘pop’ social geographer .He makes the complicated simple. Last year hundreds watched his My Jericho on the changing face of the area.This year he asks whether North Oxford is in danger of becoming a theme park.The title of this talk assumes that a Disneyfication of the centre and North Oxford is already underway, and poses the question as to whether that should simply be accepted as given and unstoppable. By Disneyfication I mean becoming like a kind of American Disney Land, a theme park to which more and more tourists are attracted and within which less and less is authentically original; but is renovated or built to look as if it was there, as it is now, always. Of course, the canal would have once been a working canal, taking coal and other heavy goods into the city - nothing can be kept quite as it was. But, as house prices in the north of the city show no sign of falling, and as international student interest in the city remains so high, should be begin to better recognise and perhaps simply accept the direction of travel? And, if so, what are the implications for the other parts of the city?"
My Jericho offers a series of independent events organized by Jericho resident John Mair. Many are at at St Barnabas. Others are streamed on YouTube.
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