Tower Of London Threatened By Development?

The Tower of London is being considered for a spot on UNESCO’s list of endangered world heritage sites because of the skyscrapers rising all around it. “hemmed in by a noisy highway and overrun by tourists, the landmark no longer casts quite the same shadow in an area dominated by brightly lit, glass-canopied office buildings and hypermodern skyscrapers like the Norman Foster building known as The Gherkin.”