In 2001, the last pigeon feed seller in London’s Trafalgar Square agreed to stop trading in return for a cash payment. Bernard Rayner, whose family had had a pitch on Trafalgar Square for three generations, was told to leave.
New Zealand’s Egmont National Park is pleasingly circular. Created in 1881, the reserve was specified to cover a 6-mile radius surveyed from the summit of Mount Taranaki, one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world. The result is an almost perfect circle of 33,500 hectares — and it’s surrounded by pasture, which makes the boundary visually distinct.
