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'''White City''' is a place in the [[London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham]]. Home to the [[BBC Television Centre]] and [[BBC White City]], it was level arable farmfields until it became the site of the [[Franco-British Exhibition (1908)|Franco-British Exhibition]] and the [[1908 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] in [[1908]] and the [[Japan-British Exhibition (1910)|Japan-British Exhibition]] in [[1910]]. It was known at that time as the ''White City'' due to the white [[marble]] cladding used on the exhibition pavillions, and hence gave its name to this part of [[Shepherd's Bush]]. To house a part of Shepherd's Bush's growing population, a five storey [[housing estate]] was built, to which the name of the White City would come to refer. While, after the Exhibitions, the [[White City Stadium|stadium]] in the north of the area hosted a [[greyhound racing]] track and athletics ground, sited where the [[BBC]] now has its administrative headquarters. White City contains the home of soccer club [[QPR]].

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