Also under consideration is a proposal to raise the height of the wall spanning the length of the inner harbor.

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With its short life and great height, the spiky Shard graphically illustrates exponentially increasing inner-city land values, while the chaos of old and new masonry surrounding it testifies to the greed and short-termism of successive generations.

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