Nice to see people waking up to the problem of people dogpiling in capital cities again. It was generally seen to be a problem up until 1980

https://www.amazon.com/Dispersing-Population-James-L-Sundqui...

but then we got Margaret Thatcher and Reagan and globalization and once it was perceived that London was in mortal combat against New York, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, there was no will to disperse London’s business to the rest of the country, now the UK is ungovernable.