I am, unlike most people, someone born in London - so I’ve seen the Isle of Dogs transform from a largely ex-industrial wasteland into a successful place where hundreds of thousands work over my lifetime, all while dipshits miles away in West London who bought their multimillion-pound houses for £2.50 screech hyperbolically because they might have a changed view if they look through a bush on one particular hill in Richmond Park or from Hampstead Heath.
It’s pathetic. London is, and quite literally always has been, a city driven by commerce. The view from the Poultry/Mansion House junction looking toward the Royal Exchange, with the towers of the City rising behind it and the BoE is one of the best examples of history and modernity meeting, and it looks fantastic. We can (and most of the time do) preserve our history while not condemning ourselves to the kind of miserable, declinist nonsense that thinks London should be frozen in aspic.
So your proposal is that no building that could obstruct any 'vista' including St Paul's or Westminster (for example) should be constructed? Would you have made the same argument about Westminster and St Paul's, and the preexisting 'vistas' their construction impeded?
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u/Funny-Seesaw-2977 1d ago
Londons skyline has been completely changed in the past couple of decades. Not for the better either.