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Future London
Introduction - Future intro
Top
Ten -
London projects for the future
Futures
Past
- Failed plans down the ages
FAQs
- We answer
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Introduction
Like any other big city, London
has long been the subject of developers' fantasies, planners'
dreams and dreamers' plans. But, unusually for a city of London's
size and standing, it has rarely succumbed to the grandiose building
schemes that mark other world cities.
There is no blueprint to rival
Hausmann's Paris, no block and grid system that is so much a
feature of American metropolises, not even the ancient imperial
designs of Rome or Beijing. Instead, central London's cityscape
has traditionally been developed project by project, area by
area, rather than by some overarching vision.
But that conservatism is about
to be punctured in the next few years as some of the city's most
famous sites get a makeover, often with tourists and pedestrians
in mind.
In this unique LondonNet guide,
we pick a Top Ten of the most interesting projects due to appear
in the next half decade, look at some of the failed schemes from
the past and answer some key queries on the capital's future
building plans.
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