London

Global City of Commerce and Culture

AvAlastair Horne

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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When you think of London, what do you see? The Houses of Parliament? The bustle around Piccadilly Circus? Elegant Victorian streets and squares? The Tate Modern? Or even Camden Market? With London, there are so many different aspects to the city. In more than 200 striking images, London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the top of the Shard to London Underground’s lost ghost stations, from the parks to the canals to the Thames. Exploring both the history and modernity of the city, the book reveals the city’s legacy as a capital and a trading hub, but also looks at how the contemporary city lives and breathes as a multi-ethnic metropolis. Presented in a landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each entry, London is a stunning collection of images celebrating the world’s most interesting city.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-14
Mått:296 x 219 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Travel [Landscape format]
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Amber Books Ltd
ISBN:9781782747741

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Alastair Horne is a lecturer in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. The author of several books including Graveyards, Graves of the Great and Famous, Paris: City of Light, and London: Treasured Capital of the United Kingdom – he is currently completing a doctorate on how smartphones are changing storytelling, and a novel set in an unnamed Parisian cemetery in the early twentieth century.

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Content includeIntroductionParklife Views from Greenwich Park Views from Hampstead Heath Battersea Park St James’s Park Green Park Hyde Park and the Albert Memorial Kensington Gardens Holland Park Richmond Park Regent’s Park Primrose Hill Kew Gardens Highgate CemeteryThe Arts & Museums The Royal Opera House The Natural History Museum The British Museum The Albert Hall The London Palladium The Victoria & Albert Museum Tate Modern Globe TheatrePalaces & Churches Westminster Abbey St Paul’s Cathedral Buckingham Palace Hampton Court Palace and its maze St James’s Palace Kensington Palace Ismaeli Centre, South Kensington St Martin’s in the FieldsThe Skyline Battersea Power Station The Shard The Lloyds Building The Cheesegrater The Walkie Talkie The Gherkin The Tower of London Houses of Parliament Nelson’s ColumnTransport The Underground platforms and stations from the oldest at Baker Street to modern stations at Canary Wharf and Southwark London taxis, London double-decker buses Ghost stations on London Underground Mainline stations: St Pancras, King’s Cross, WaterlooStreetlife & Public Spaces Piccadilly & Piccadilly Circus Trafalgar Square & Whitehall Shaftesbury Avenue Regent’s Street Burlington Arcade Camden MarketPubs London’s food markets – Smithfield, Billingsgate, New Covent Garden, Residential: Georgian squares – Fitzroy Square, Georgian terraces – Smith Square, Victorian terraces and squares, brutalist architectureRivers and Canals Bridges: the lights of Albert Bridge and Battersea Bridge, commuters crossing Waterloo Bridge, Tower Bridge Georgian houses on the river at Chiswick Rowers on the Thames The Thames Barrier Warehouse apartments Canary Wharf Richmond Regent’s Canal