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Data quality, spelled out in Scrabble letters

Data quality, spelled out in Scrabble letters Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JTD3A8

File size:

41.6 MB (1.2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

4841 x 3000 px | 41 x 25.4 cm | 16.1 x 10 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

28 August 2022

Location:

United Kingdom

More information:

. This dated editorial view of United Kingdom in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The defining feature is Data quality, spelled out in Scrabble letters. The locality and subject together evoke civic architecture, town-centre renewal, mixed-use redevelopment, historical comparison, local character, commercial redevelopment, community identity, everyday life, regional identity, urban fabric, local history, contemporary social history, social history, and archival record. Today's relevance is strengthened by planning, public-realm investment and the continuing question of the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around United Kingdom before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. The photograph additionally reflects visual archive, public realm, historic townscape, before-and-after reference, changing streetscape, architectural character, changing land use, and built heritage. Elements such as quality, letters, spelled, and Scrabble add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at United Kingdom helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is planning and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space in a form that can be compared with future views of United Kingdom. The wider significance includes construction costs and the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space within the real-world context of United Kingdom. The period view preserves details of everyday use before later change alters the scene.