Broadcast

London – Another Country?

BBC Radio 4
Towering Ambition - A Tale of Two Cities
Wednesday 14 July 2011 | 11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

Rosie Millard explores whether skyscrapers – once seen as an essential accessory of a go-ahead, ambitious city – are really the best way to express pre-eminence and modernity.

In London, Mayor Boris Johnson, who pledged to stop the “plague of towers” promised by his predecessor, has given the go-ahead for a privately funded tower to mark the 2012 Olympics.