Quote Originally Posted by LIP
East London is today an area of regeneration, with a rising population. The redevelopment of the Docklands area began in the early 1980s, and the Thames Gateway project is now extending regeneration further east, with the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation responsible for planning and delivery of the project in East London. London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics has kick-started regeneration programmes in the area, and is likely to have an impact on house prices. This has been evidenced in August 2005 where East London was one of only three places in England and Wales to have increases in property prices. [1]

I guess suburbs - coz it's not technically the trading centre [city] of london.
I thought I recognized this and then I realized one time when you said you were from east london i looked it up on wikipedia, and this is the changing face of east london section IDK how I remembered that how then and how now but somehow from weeks ago I still did