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A postwar housing crisis in this city was partly caused by the 1944 Abercrombie Plan proscribing an outer Green Belt. Property prices in this most populous city in its country increased following a scheme introduced in the 1980s called Right to Buy. This city's Brutalist Trellick Tower was built as part of a broader (20[1])council house project advocated for (0[1])by Aneurin (*) Bevan (10[1])("uh-NYE-rin BEV-in"). In 2017, a building in this city with an aluminum cladding (10[1])manufactured by Arconic caught fire, killing 70 people (10[1])in the Grenfell (0[1])Tower disaster. Two suffragette attacks in this city targeted its St. Martin-in-the-Fields (0[1])Church, as well as St. Paul's Cathedral. (10[3]0[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this capital city where many houses were destroyed during The Blitz. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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