Aesthetic Politics and Heritage Nostalgia: Electrical Generating Superstations in the London Cityscape since 1927

Since they were first proposed in the 1920s and 1940s, there has been a significant relationship between central London’s gigantic power stations, Battersea and Bankside, and those concerned with safeguarding the capital’s ‘public face’ and its artistic and architectural treasures. Both plants were designed with technical compromises enforced on them by urban heritage preservation critics, and both were erected with the aesthetic considerations …