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London and Docklands
The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London.
The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.
Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in east and southeast London, England.
The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted.
It also created conflict between the new and old communities of the London Docklands.
The London Docklands was bombed during the Second World War, and was hit by over 2, 500 bombs.
To address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, formed the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) to redevelop the area.
London Docklands also now boasts its own free newspaper, The Docklands, launched in 2006 by Archant London, following the purchase of Docklands News, the ex LDDC newspaper which was then owned by Ivy Communications.
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It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.
Taken together on a like-for-like basis, London Underground and Docklands Light Railway operate of track, longer than the Shanghai Metro ( excluding the Shanghai Maglev line ).
These include the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Blackpool Tramway, London Tramlink, Glasgow Subway, Tyne and Wear Metro, Manchester Metrolink, Sheffield Supertram, Midland Metro and Nottingham Express Transit.

London and Development
In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.
( 1986 ) Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910, London: Ravens Educational & Development Services, ISBN 0-947895-01-9
* Law, Environment and Development Journal ( based in New Delhi and London )
* R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic, it's Origin and Development, London: 1908.
* Kneale, W., and Kneale, M. ( 1962 ), The Development of Logic, Oxford University Press, London, UK, 1962.
* Kneale, William, and Kneale, Martha ( 1962 ), The Development of Logic, Oxford University Press, London, UK.
Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.
Four functional bodies — Transport for London, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, London Development Agency and London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority — are responsible for delivery of services in these areas.
The Mayor proposes policy and the GLA's budget, and makes appointments to the capital's strategic executive such as Transport for London and the London Development Agency.
* London Development Agency ( LDA ) – Responsible for development across London.
The London Sustainable Development Commission has calculated that for housing to meet the 60 % target, all new developments would have to be constructed to be carbon-neutral with immediate effect ( using zero energy building techniques ), in addition to cutting energy used in existing housing by 40 %.
It is estimated that, between 1964 and 1970, 45, 000 government jobs were created outside London, 21, 000 of which were located in the Development Areas.
London, Brighton, Liverpool, and Manchester being the largest and the cities with the biggest gay populations ( Liverpool's LGBT population being 94, 000 by mid-2009 according to the North West Regional Development Agency.
London: Development Trusts Association
* Albany, Piccadilly, London-Housing Development in the West End of London, initially designed by Robert Adam, the architect
& Petheram, R. J. 2004, Cardamom cultivation and forest biodiversity in northwest Vietnam, Agricultural Research and Extension Network, Overseas Development Institute, London UK.
Under the 1963 Act, the GLC was required to produce a Greater London Development Plan.
* 1994, Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide, Earthscan, London, ISBN 0-86571-264-6

London and Corporation
In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.
The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.
In 2008 Gibraltar was listed for the first time in the Global Financial Centres Index published by the City of London Corporation.
Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.
Its functions were devolved to the Corporation and the London boroughs with some functions transferred to central government and joint boards.
In England, specifically in the City of London Corporation, more than 100 guilds, referred to as livery companies survive today, and the oldest have been in existence for over a thousand years.
In 1846, Pearson proposed with the support of the City Corporation a central railway station for London located in Farringdon that was estimated to cost £ 1 million ( approximately £ 71. 7 million today ).
* 1887 – 1890: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti of Liverpool, England is hired by the London Electric Supply Corporation to design the Deptford Power Station.
Their construction was prompted when the Mayor and Corporation of London first banned plays in 1572 as a measure against the plague, and then formally expelled all players from the city in 1575.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of ( and head of ) the City of London Corporation.
In 2006 the Corporation of London changed its name to the City of London Corporation.
As head of the Corporation of the City of London, the Lord Mayor is the key spokesman for the local authority and also has important ceremonial and social responsibilities.
The Lord Mayor is a member of the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation ( incorporated as The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ).

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