London

London is known around the world as a metropolitan, ordered city full of tourist attractions and exclusive shops, but the real face of the city - disordered, chaotic, sprawling, vigorous, untamed - remains unseen and unexplored. London from Punk to Blair is a richly illustrated portrait of Europe's foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late '70s. Using maps, journeys, pictures, narratives and signs, the contributors chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and, what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires' loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; and, from film, fashion and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth and the vagaries of weather, "London from Punk to Blair" embraces the city like no other book has before. London is too complex and fragmented for any one person to comprehend fully, but this book goes a long way to help you discover what lies outside, and inside, Zone 1. The book will open your eyes to parts of London that you have never seen, or even knew existed, until now.

ISBN 1861891717   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781861891716 (What's this?)   Pages 416 Publisher Reaktion Books   Volumes 1 Imprint Reaktion Books   Weight (grammes) 1301 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 31 Oct 2003   Height (mm) 248 Photographer Seaborne, Mike   Width (mm) 190 Library of Congress DA688   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 942.1   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction by Joe Kerr		11
		Ethnicity/Identity		23
		London and Language by Katie Wales		36
		The Metropolitan Playgournd: London's Children by Jenny Bavidge and Andrew Gibson		41
		Gay London by Mark W. Turner		48
		Wild Women, Wild Men by Hanif Kureishi		60
		An Unimportant Fire by Salman Rushdie		63
		Cosmopolis: London's Ethnic Minorities by Panikos Panayi		67
		White Hair Right Now: Styling the London Man by Caroline Cox		73
		The London Suit by Christopher Breward		79
		Politics/Economics		87
		From GLC to GLA: London Politics from Then to Now by John Davis		109
		Armagideon Time by Charlie Gere		117
		Staging Royal London by Fiona Henderson		123
		CCTV: City Watch by Niran Abbas		131
		Sex, Power and Miracles: A Suburban Triptych by David Gilbert		139
		The Transformation of Political and Cultural Space by Hilda Kean		149
		The State of London by Mike Phillips		157
		Infrastructure		163
		Blowdown: The Rise and Fall of London's Tower Blocks by Joe Kerr		189
		End of the Line by Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins		199
		Rats with Wings: London's Battle with Animals by Gargi Bhattacharyya		213
		Abandoned Buildings by Nicholas Royle		221
		Higher and Higher: How London Fell for the Loft by Tom Dyckhoff		229
		Down in the Dirt by Patrick Wright		237
		More...

 Be the first to write a customer review