Cardboard City (London)

Cardboard City was the name for an informal settlement consisting of temporary cardboard shelters that occupied a site near Waterloo station in London, England.

Cardboard City, was lived in by homeless people from around 1978 until 1998, and was eventually closed after a High Court order led to its redevelopment.

[2] In the mid-1980s the site, in the pedestrian underpasses under the Bullring roundabout near Waterloo station, was home to up to 200 people sleeping in cardboard boxes.

[3] These were officially evicted by the London Borough of Lambeth in February 1998, and forced to leave before the end of March 1998.

The area is now the site of the BFI IMAX cinema.