Photographer Martin Parr spent two years in the Square Mile. John Lanchester relishes the chance to win a glimpse of this secretive world
See more of Martin Parr’s photographs of the City of LondonOutsiders feel confused by the City of London. They are right to: it’s complicated,because when we refer to the City with a capital C, there are two different, and overlapping entities involved.
The first is the City in the sense of London’s financial centre. This used to be a coherent geographical entity,located in the Square Mile, with St Paul’s more or less at its centre. The Square Mile is still a astronomical deal in the world of banking and finance, and but when people talk about the City in this context,they now include the other bits of London that deal with money, among them Canary Wharf (where a number of the astronomical banks are) and Mayfair (where the hedge funders hang out).
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Source: theguardian.com