But the Corporation has to pay a price for making deals outside its boundaries of the square mile.
The City, London's traditional financial district, is also called the square mile, but it is no longer as compact as it once was.
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The square mile in the Philips Park area of Whitefield will be the first outside London to effectively widen the home boundaries into a public space.
The Corporation of London, the Square Mile's local authority, wants more tall buildings because it fears competition from rival financial districts and not just Frankfurt and Paris.
That is not the same, however, as having a universal conviction that were Britain to join at once it would be good for the Square Mile.
You are assured to have a much better view on the company than any Oxford grad climbing the slippery pole in some brokerage in the Square Mile.
The truth is that each of these operates as a branch office for the City of London, the square mile that is the epicenter of finance in London.
The British Chambers of Commerce said it hoped that the new governor would "focus relentlessly on supporting business growth across the UK - not just in the Square Mile".
Like many of the City's ways, LIBOR is something of an anachronism, a throwback to a time when many bankers within the Square Mile knew one another and when trust was more important than contract.
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London's mayor, Boris Johnson, wants central swaths of the capital, including the financial district (known as the City or the Square Mile), the South Bank and the West End, completely exempted from the new rules, and has lodged an official complaint with the government.
The Kenzo Tange Master Plan covers an area of 5x5 miles with the central square mile being the Sacred Garden within which is the UNESCO World Heritage Property.
The operator is set to eventually deploy a Wi-Fi network across the entire Square Mile, London's main financial district, and is launching a number of city center "hotzones" around Britain.
The square-mile block near 149-at-May turned into a high-stakes game of scavenger hunt on Tuesday and Wednesday, with residents picking through what was left of their homes and looking for weirdly specific items.
Up until then, the 700 square mile island had been sitting in splendid sunlit isolation for about 10 million years, since it first emerged from the Indian Ocean in a series of volcanic eruptions.
The clean-up of the 1, 200 square mile sector involved in the Kuwaiti government contract will be one of the biggest projects of its kind ever mounted.
Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Known today, rather prosaically, as Angkor Archaeological Park, the 150-square-mile site was the political and cultural centre of the Khmer empire and at its peak supported a population of one million.
After some casting about, as it were, I settle on the 300-square-mile High Lonesome Ranch on the western slope of the Rockies in DeBeque, Colorado.
As the surge invaded this square-mile that comprises the southern tip of Manhattan and the oldest part of the island water swept through the Ground Zero construction site and it completely filled the Battery Park Tunnel.
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The governor of Hawaii confirmed the sale of the 140-square mile island Wednesday, but didn't say how much it went for.
Unavoidable damage, say Kurdish officials on the ground, who say they had to root out this terrorist stronghold throughout the 250-square mile area, well dug-in, well-entrenched.
The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels-thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.
The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels--thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.
The move applies to the majority of shopping and residential streets in the area, which covers a two and half square mile block of the city.
With Gazans locked inside the 40km by 10km (154 square-mile) strip, the siege has given Hamas a free hand to mould the place.
Many small grape-growers and distillers across the 4, 200-square-mile cognac region have been held by the same families for a century or more.
Many small grape growers and distillers across the 4, 200-square-mile cognac region have been held by the same families for a century or more.
Thailand claims, however, that the 1.8 square mile (4.6 sq. km) area around it was never fully demarcated.
As Syrian troops pummeled the 5-square-mile area, a small group of activists pointed a live stream camera over their rooftops.
The state's second largest blaze is the 136-square-mile High Park Fire, which has destroyed 257 homes and killed one woman.
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