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Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report

by Iain Sinclair · 2009

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Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty.

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