Why East London has No Bridges

The built environment is always interesting. Roads, bridges, quays, ports, and other sorts of things are planned out and put in place by people for reasons that can be obvious or incredibly subtle. In the cast of East London, the reason it is so hard to cross the River Thames has to do with where shipping used to take place and the politics of the city. In this video, we’ll be learning all about the various bridges between the banks of the Thames and why East London just can’t seem to get a bridge over troubled waters.