London : architecture, building and social change /

London : architecture, building and social change /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Knox, Paul L., author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Merrell Publishers Limited, 2015. ©2015
Description:	304 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Architecture -- England -- London. Architecture London (England) -- History. England -- London. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10142064

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ISBN:	9781858946276 1858946271
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297) and index.
Summary:	London, a fascinating metropolis not just in terms of its history and landmark buildings, is also a city that grew out of villages. Its unique geography is expressed in a mosaic of districts, each with its own distinctive character and pedigree. London's districts, with their patchwork layout of primarily Georgian and Victorian squares and terraces juxtaposed with modern buildings and estates, reflect changing ideals in architecture, urban design and planning as well as shifting values in real estate and the insatiable thirst of its consumers. London is thus both text and context: fossilized social history, layerings of economic, social, and architectural history conveyed in stock brick, stucco, Portland stone, glass and steel. Underpinning this urban landscape is an evolutionary resilience that has maintained the basic spatial framework of the metropolis and sustained its imitable character. The city's institutional framework has been severely ruptured and reinvented time and time again after fires, bombs, floods or wholesale redevelopment. Political unrest and racial conflict have resulted in riots, while successive rounds of investment and disinvestment have replaced elements of the built environment many times over. This book offers an insightful perspective into the distinctiveness of London as expressed through its socially significant buildings and districts. --Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A city of districts
Bayswater and Paddington
Belgravia and Pimlico
Bethnal Green
Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia
Borough and Southwark
Camden
Chelsea
The City
Clerkenwell
Greenwich
Holborn
Hoxton and Shoreditch
Islington
Kensington
Knightsbridge
Lambeth
Marylebone
Mayfair
Notting Hill
Poplar and Isle of Dogs
Regent's Park and St John's Wood
Soho and Covent Garden
South Bank and Bankside
Spitalfields
Wapping and Limehouse
Westminster and St James's
Whitechapel.