In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offersthe first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. From the Big Tie to the Big Bang, it’s a heavy-hitting episode of Unfrozen.
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
o This is London: Rees Remembrances
o The City is Here for You to Use
- The BigTie, by Brian Griffin
- Top hatters
- Lloyds and the Lloyds Building
- Eva Jiricna: Kenzo > Interiors at Lloyds
- Spitting Image Richard Rogers episode
- “Where Ideas Come From,” by Steven Johnson
- Paul Romer’s “spillover effect”
- The Big Bang, 1986
- If it’s bad in the City, it’s worse at Canary Wharf and Stamford
- Bishopsgate bombing, 1993 & the Ring of Steel
- Paternoster Square & Prince Charles
- London County Council vs. the City of London Corporation
- No. 1 Poultry, by James Stirling
- “Edge of Empire,” by Jane Margaret Jacobs
- The British financial archipelago, e.g., Bermuda and the Cayman Islands
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