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Portsoken Street Garden was created after WWII with financial assistance from the King George's Fields Foundation, and is the smallest King George's Field in the country. The Foundation, set up as a memorial following the King's death in 1936, provided funding for the creation or improvement of a great many playing fields before it was dissolved in 1965, including £10,000 to the City for this site. 1980s re-landscaping consisted of a water feature with fountain and pools within circular brick walls, perimeter path, seating and planting of shrubs, bedding displays and trees. The garden was redesigned in 2010 to create a new play area, with an emphasis on introducing natural play.

King's College London was founded in 1829, becoming one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836. It now occupies 5 campuses, the original one being its Strand Campus. The Maughan Library & Information Services Centre opened here in 2001 on the site of the former Rolls Chapel founded in 1232, associated with the Master of the Rolls from 1377 and the location of the Public Record Office from the C19th until 1997. In 1912 the PRO acquired part of the garden of Clifford's Inn. After King's College moved here the PRO garden was re-landscaped as a Contemplative Garden of 'green rooms' designed by George Carter and includes a sculpture and water feature.

An area of landscaping was laid out at the road junction of London Wall and Moorgate when the first section of the new traffic route through the City was opened in 1959 by the Duchess of Kent following post-war rebuilding. Bounded by low brick walls, the landscaping consisted of shrub planting, an oak tree and a small area of lawn. A sculpture, 'The Gardener', 1972 by Karin Jonzen, commissioned by the Corporation of London was sited here. The area was re-landscaped as part of realignment of the roads and the site now consists of an oval area of grass with a series of gentle undulations. The oak tree remains but the sculpture has been moved to Brewers' Hall Garden.

This and the Barbican were the worst bombed areas in the City in WW II and as a result were substantially rebuilt post-war for both commercial and residential use. This was part of a scheme drawn up in 1954/5 by the Corporation of London and LCC to create a new business district around the London Wall area. There was provision for gardens and open spaces, and fragments of the old Roman City walls and older buildings also remained amidst the new architecture. This included the ruined tower of St Alphage Church, on the site of the C14th priory church of Elsing Spital. To the north, the former churchyard of St Alphage had already been made into a small public garden by 1872. The garden is bounded to the north by a high section of the old Roman Wall and to the west of the main garden is an extension with a lower paved area. These gardens together with the restored tower were re-landscaped and incorporated into London Wall Place, a commercial scheme by Brookfield, with Make architects.

The Merchant Taylors' Garden is the oldest surviving Livery Company garden. The Fraternity of Tailors and Linen Armourers was established in the early C14th, later becoming the Merchant Taylors' Company. Their Hall was built between 1347-92 and its medieval crypt and great kitchen survive although all but the shell was destroyed in the Great Fire, and severe damage in WWII bombing. The first known record of a garden occurs in 1406, and the main development appears to have taken place c.1573 when there was a bowling alley, terrace and knot garden with herbs. A plan of 1680 shows 3 garden areas, the main area being what is now the enclosed courtyard garden. In the early C20th major refurbishment of the buildings took place, which included a new largely paved courtyard garden with four rhomboid flower beds around a central fountain; a statue of John the Baptist was added in 1914. In 1984/6 the garden was redesigned by raising the fountain and its surround, moving the flower beds to the outer edge and laying new stone.

Monkwell Square was formed post WWII on the site of Monkwell Street, the name probably derived from a medieval family called Muchewella. The central space was originally laid out formally with grass, shaped beds and a series of circular planters, paving and seating. In the 1980s, the 1960s Lee House was replaced by Alban Gate designed by Terry Farrell Partnership and the square was re-designed, much reduced in size. The square is overlooked by residential accommodation on two sides and by the Barber Surgeons' Hall to the east. The landscape design has a central raised area with balustrades, an obelisk and planting in each corner.

The Museum of London was conceived in 1961 to provide a building to house the Corporation of London's collection together with that of the London Museum. It was part of the post WWII redevelopment of the London Wall area of the City to create a new business district. The Museum opened in 1976. In the centre of the circular building is the Rotunda Garden, which was refurbished in 2010/11as part of renovations to the lower galleries.

Noble Street Gardens is a sunken garden made post-WWII adjacent to the Plaisterers' Hall. The area suffered heavy bomb damage in WWII and the excavated garden contains remains of the old Roman Wall. The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers was incorporated in 1501 and its original hall was built in 1556 in Addle Hill off Carter Lane, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 and then again in 1882 after another fire. The hall here dates from 1970-3, rebuilt c.2002. Noble Street is named after a C14th landowner, Thomas Noble.

Old Change Court is a landscaped area laid out in the 1960s as part of City Walkway and overlooks St Nicholas Cole Abbey. There are areas of grass, paving and seats, small trees and shrubs and a sculpture by Michael Ayrton, 'Icarus', dated 1973. This is dedicated to Bernard Sunley (1910-1964) 'who loved gardens and the City of London' and it was presented to the Corporation of London by the Bernard Sunley Investment Trust Ltd.

New Change Buildings, demolished in 2007, were built in 1953-60 for the Bank of England with a formal sunken garden facing Bread Street with C18th style fountains and lawns, crossed by a causeway leading to an internal central courtyard with a fountain, planting and C18th style lead cisterns. Bread Street was part of the City's market area, and was the site of the first C15th Hall of the Worshipful Company of Salters. The building was demolished in 2007 and the new scheme by Jean Nouvel was completed in 2010, with new pedestrian routes and public access to a rooftop plaza.

One Tree Park is on the site of the Upper Burying Ground of the parish of St Botolph by Billingsgate, with a plaque to this effect set into the paved courtyard. Old gate and stone piers, possibly dating from the C18th, remain at the corner of Monument Street. The medieval church of St Botolph Billingsgate stood south of Lower Thames Street to the east of the former churchyard; it was rebuilt in the late C16th but later destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and not rebuilt. Part of the site was used for the widening of Thames Street. The parish was joined to that of St George Botolph Lane, for which the churchyard become an additional burial ground.

Paternoster Square is an ancient space, rendered sacred by association with Paternoster Row where the clergy of St Paul's used to walk in procession, telling their rosary beads and reciting the Paternoster prayer. It was once the site of the Newgate Meat Market. Bombed in 1940, Paternoster Square was laid out in 1956 as part of post-war reconstruction as a large pedestrian plaza surrounded by office blocks. Predominantly hard landscaped, it had seating, some planting and a bronze sculpture by Elisabeth Frink commissioned in 1975. Redevelopment plans were under discussion in the mid 1980s, but building only commenced in 2001, completed in 2003. The paved square retained the Frink sculpture in the north end and in the centre is the 23m high Paternoster Square Column. The historic Temple Bar was re-erected here as the entrance from St Paul's Cathedral and opened to the public in late 2004.