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South Acton in Acton, west London, is west of Charing Cross. At the 2001 census, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people.〔(Ealing.gov.uk )〕 The area is dominated by the South Acton housing estate, a large public housing estate owned by Ealing Council. There are some 2,000 residential dwellings on the estate, covering approximately 25 hectares of land.〔South Acton Neighbourhood Regeneration: Urban Design Framework, Ealing Council, 2004〕 These are accommodated in a range of principally medium to high rise blocks. The estate also provides shops, a youth club, a community centre, a nursery, school buildings and open space. The area is well served by transport links. , a major interchange for the District and Piccadilly lines, with links to Heathrow and the West End is on the western boundary. On the southern boundary is , a London Overground station running north through to Stratford and south to Richmond. The site is bounded to the north by Acton High Street, to the south by the London Overground railway line, to the east by a Victorian residential neighbourhood and to the west by Bollo Lane and the tube lines. To the south east, on the other side of the railway line, lie the suburban residential areas of Acton Green and Bedford Park. The estate and area is also particularly diverse. Historically, the area has been important for Irish Working Class immigrants, and recently this has been supplemented by Somali, Indian and Afro-Caribbean immigration. Currently the population is 52% white, including 5% of Irish descent, 24% Afro-Caribbean, 16% Asian, with the last 8% being of other ethnic origins. A great range of first languages other than English are spoken at the local school. Historically, the estate and the area has suffered from a poor reputation, in particular because of high levels of crime and drug dealing and use. However, recent efforts by the Council, Ealing Homes (the council's housing management company) and local residents have seen improvements in the area.〔http://www.actonw3.com/default.asp?section=info&page=concrime016.htm〕 There are now plans to redevelop the majority of what is a mono-tenure estate, to provide a new mixed tenure community and benefit from the area's transport links and proximity to Chiswick and Ealing. ==History of South Acton Estate== The area was originally built to a traditional Victorian street pattern with medium density terraced housing occupying the majority of the site. Although initially having good north/south links, the construction of the railway lines created a permanent barrier in these areas. In the post war period, the area was earmarked for comprehensive redevelopment that would involve clearance of the 19th century properties labelled as slums.〔http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1152〕 This was a common response by local authorities to the problems of poor housing after the war and it led to the proliferation of medium and high rise system built housing estates,〔http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=395DBD1DD196CAA2AB24CA21DB83B388.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=54657〕 influenced by Modernist ideals of Le Corbusier who sought to engineer the human machine 〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aPoxgOrq-poC&q=le+corbusier+towards+a+new+architecture&dq=le+corbusier+towards+a+new+architecture&pgis=1 Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier, 1984〕 Government subsidies and local politics also encouraged the production of system built and high rise housing.〔(The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945-1975, Patrick Dunleavy (1981) )〕 The council embarked on comprehensive redevelopment in 1949 with the construction of Bollo Court. The redevelopment continued over the 50s, 60s and 70s with a variety of styles and archetypes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Acton, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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