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Brutal London
Brutalism in London
brutalist London
Category1=Non-Fiction
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city guide
city of London
contemporary buildings in London
COP=United Kingdom
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East End
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Georgian buildings
global city
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London architecture
London buildings
London landscape
London map
London trip
medieval London
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pocket guide
Price_€10 to €20
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reading London architecture
softlaunch
Victorian London
walking in London
West End
Product details
- ISBN 9781782404521
- Dimensions: 135 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Over 2,000 years of settlement give London its unique architectural heritage. Unlike Haussmann’s Paris, neither monarch nor politician imposed their will; private ownership and enterprise shaped the city and defined its parts. Elegant West End squares and crescents hallmark the Classical townscape that emerged between 1600 and 1830, but medieval, Tudor and Victorian enclaves identified by occupation, class or guild make their own design statement, notably in the City and East End. From its renewal after the Great Fire of 1666 as a centre of commerce, culture, finance and as a railway hub, the seat of power and law, How to Read London reveals through the built environment how London’s domestic, civic and commercial landscape has evolved and adapted from imperial capital to global city.
Chris Rogers writes on architecture and visual culture, informed by twenty years of investigation, research and conversations with practitioners. He creates and leads architectural tours, often working closely with architects, and is the author of The Power of Process: The Architecture of Michael Pearson (2010) and How to Read Paris (2016).
