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’London needs Chicago architecture critic’ says Blair Kamin
United Kingdom Architecture News - Jan 08, 2016 - 12:37 5531 views
A view of the "Walkie-Talkie" building, left, and Gherkin, right, as seen from the 9th floor balcony of City Hall, London, on April 11, 2015.Hannah McKay, PA Wire.
London is at once modern and ancient, sprawling and walkable, a city of Anglo-Saxon pomp that is surprisingly polyglot. The growing population — now 8.6 million, an increase of nearly 2 million over the last 25 years — symbolizes the global resurgence of cities. Yet soaring rents and a threat to urban character have many Londoners asking a question that's increasingly heard in Chicago: Just who is our city for?