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In the political economy of finance, the infrastructure of the material environment has tended to be underexamined, with only cursory attention given to how new technologies are enabled by planning decisions and built into the fabric of working spaces. Yet the production of certain infrastructure systems enables some financial centers to have a competitive advantage over others. This chapter responds to this omission by exploring how the City of London, a core hub for financial services, prioritized the remaking of its infrastructure as a way to rebuild and extend its power. The general coverage of infrastructure in respect to the City remains sparse – a troubling analytical gap when one considers that infrastructure is always an enduring question for government and private sector agents. The chapter probes the political economy of infrastructural dynamics from the 1980s to the present, a prominent period in which the City grappled with manifold commercial, technological, regulatory, and cultural changes. The argument uncovers how different groups of professional players – major firms, local government agencies, property owners, architects, and developers – interacted in ways which produced a significant transformation in the infrastructural experience of the City.
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