London has, from it's very inception, been dependant upon the flow of trade along the Thames. With the relative cheapness of water-borne transport, this hasn't changed much, a fact compounded by the expensive nature of innovations in water-transport such as hovercraft and hydrofoils. So what you are seeing here is a scene that hasn't changed much for centuries. and in terms of the sunset itself, for millenia.
I don't see London so much as a place to see the contrast between new and old, to the extent that Tokyo is. I see it more as a land of continuity, where even very old things are restored to be still useful in today's world- A tale of two cities!
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