ABSTRACT
This chapter charts the physical changes to the urban landscape, and the associated strategies employed by the agents of security, primarily the City of London police, that were developed in the Square Mile as a result of the threat of terrorism in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. It analyses how the reaction to the terrorist threat led to the development of anti-terrorist security in and around the City which sought to control and regulate space, reinforcing localisation whilst still attempting to enhance the global economic function of the Square Mile. The Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA's) offensive strategy was temporarily halted between August 1994 and February 1996 as a cessation of military activities was declared. The economic importance of the City and its attractiveness to terrorists was also reaffirmed in 2003 when it was reported that the threat of a major terrorist attack on London led the Chancellor of the Exchequer to consider 'radical contingency plans for the City'.
