London
- 作者
- 出版社 Little Brown UK via LBS
- 出版时间 2005年2月
- ISBN 9780753820278
- 定价 120.00
内容简介
Thestructureofthebookischronological,withdigressions.FromRomanandthenNormanLondon,wemoveontoChaucer'sLondon-thecityofthePeasantsRevolt,DickWhittingtonandthegreatLiveryCompanies.InTudorandStuartLondonmanybelievedthecitywasbeingwreckedbyover-population,over-buildingandthegreedofspeculators.Eighteenth-centuryLondonwitnessedtheSouthSeaBubble,gin,highwaymenandtheGordonriots;butalsobanking,hospitals,andtheelegantdesignofeverydaythings.Inthenineteenthcentury,expandingvigorously,thecityresistedanyoverallmake-over.WithQueenVictoriacametheRailwayAge,whichmadeandunmadethecity.Chartism,anti-semitism,overcrowdingandcholera.Butengineeringtriumphstoo.IftheFirstWorldWarwasanightmarehappeningelsewhere,theamazingsixyearsof1939-45werethecity'sfinesthour.Post-1945,propertydeveloperstookover,withdisastrousresults.Theauthorcelebratesthecosmopolitancitythatmobilityandimmigrationhavecreated,whiledeploringthemoronization'ofthecity,exemplifiedbytheMillennium
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