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Sir John Evelyn's plan for re-building the City of London.
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| Sir John Evelyn's plan for re-building the City of London. |
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| © National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Description: Sir John Evelyn proposed that the City of London should abandon its existing street gridplan and be rebuilt along radically different lines. He hoped for Italian-style piazzas and broad avenues. In the end, the commercial pressures to rebuild London according to its former street gridplan prevailed, and Evelyn's ideas were ignored. |
| Creator: John Evelyn |
| Date: c. 1666 |
| Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London | |
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