In the 1960s, urban planners drew up plans to build an elevated ring road through inner London, potentially displacing a large population of poorer people. Luckily the plans were scrapped, and the road was never built. It’s hard to imagine today how the highway would have changed London.

Ring road or not, poorer residents were eventually priced out. The areas in the way of the road, including “Earl’s Court, Clapham Junction, Brixton, Blackheath, Hackney Wick, Dalston, Camden, and Kilburn,” are highly sought-after neighbourhoods to live in London today.