World City: 1950s-today

After facing poverty and war, London emerged as a rejuvenated, vibrant modern city for the masses. London became a new kind of world city. A youth and multicultural revolution saw Londoners absorb new values and claim new rights. By the end of the 20th century, the diversity of its people was at the heart of London’s identity. Homes were transformed by new forms of entertainment, technology and fashion. Television puppets Bill and Ben delighted London’s children in the 1950s, the first Apple Mac computers appeared in Londoners’ homes in the 1980s and fashion in the capital shifted from Biba and Mary Quant in the 1960s to Alexander McQueen and Tatty Devine in the 2000s. As well as looking back, we face up to London’s future. One enormous image imagines what London will look like in years to come while a flowing interactive river lets you debate the issues affecting London today, from burial space to climate change.

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Website
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/galleries/world-city-1950s-today/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000048?id=EVENT515088