London, capital of the 21st century?

If London's pulse is beating at the rate of the large London building sites, built in the name of international leading lights of architecture and if London is continually recycling its heritage and industrial waste land in high cultural places, then this glamorous image is losing its shine in Highbury and in King's Cross. It is in the area of housing however that the British capital must undoubtedly demonstrate its modernity and dynamism.