Re-inventing the City's alleys : New pedestrian routes in the City of London

Client: Space Syntax

City of London

The most important mode of transport in the City of London is walking and wheeling and the most important and overlooked transport infrastructure essential for the City to absorb a growing working population exceeding 680,000 is its network of pedestrian routes. Through negotiating 10 new pedestrian routes in planning permissions in just 2025, City Planning is rapidly transforming the urban-grain and permeability of the City, easing pedestrian movement. This is creating a more walkable, connected, gentler, cleaner, sustainable, more humane City, revealing views of landmarks that surprises and enriches and re-introduces the historical urban-grain and lost alleys, an infrastructural transformation