ERASED CITY - Design development : masterplanning activities

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The project speculates that, since the bankers are leaving the City of London to work in Canary Wharf or international cities, new pockets of space can be occupied by artists, fishermen or craftsmen and will eventually lead to the reinstallation of some sort of guilds in the historic core of London.

 

''We use metal detectors and sometimes we find little coins like this one here...It is probably from around 1500 or 1600.''
(mudlark on medieval coin, Old Billingsgate Market)