If You Build it, They Will Come: The Role of Individuals in the Emergence of Canary Wharf, 1985–1987.
Canary Wharf is now arguably Britain's premier banking centre, employing over 100,000 people. However, this is a relatively new phenomenon. A declining area until the mid-1980s, London's increasingly derelict Docklands had been haemorrhaging jobs and people since the mid-1960s. The arrival of the Ca...
| Publicado en: | London Journal Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 70 - 93 |
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