"... it is often in those awkward-shaped parcels of ground - left over like a hem when the surrounding areas have been sewn up - called 'marginal land'. These seem to be multiplying with the piecemeal extension of built-up areas: a sliver left over between two strictly rectangular factories, a disused car dump, the surrounds of an electricity sub-station"
- p.38 The Unofficial Countryside (1978), by Richard Mabey
- p.38 The Unofficial Countryside (1978), by Richard Mabey
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I love those spaces, here's one I found recently in Hunstanton (seaside resort). It was between the children's plastic slide and the crazy golf:
http://arcadespromenades.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/liminal-space-gate.jpg
I believe these are also sometimes known as a SLOAP - Space Left Over After Planning. Several of these were created in Leytonstone by the building of the A12 (M11 link road). One gained official recognition and was made into a ludicrous "park" - Linear Park, on Grove Green Road.
Another, further up Grove Green Road towards Leytonstone Station, was the small block of buildings that now houses the 491 Gallery.
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