Pedestrianisation has always had a volatile relationship with London. While Covent Garden and the South Bank are consistently held up as exemplars of a flourishing, traffic-free public realm, the Barbican and London Wall are renowned for the sterile, desolate anonymity of their labyrinthine, windswept plazas. The varying success of these and hundreds of other pedestrianisation schemes has had a decidedly polarising effect on civic debate.
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