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Today’s Fitzrovia owes a debt to 1970s activism

The 1970s were an extraordinary period of protest, disruption and change in many major cities. London was no different and it was in this decade that urban redevelopment, slum clearance and road building provoked local communities to form protest movements. Fitzrovia is often compared with its neighbouring ‘urban villages’ of Soho and Covent Garden. All […]