ABSTRACT
By the end of the first century London had already acquired most of the public buildings it would have needed but this did little to slow the pace of construction. The building programme continued vigorously into the second century, although most later works were concerned with enlarging or replacing earlier structures. London seems to have found its earliest public buildings were inadequate; perhaps it had outgrown them, perhaps the city had been promoted in status (as from municipium to colonia), or perhaps the habit of building was difficult to break. After over two decades of continuous construction work there might well have been a strong lobby of interest pressing the city to find new building projects.
