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Hardcover
Description
Author: Peter Barber
Brand: British Library Publishing
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 400
Release Date: 25-09-2012
Part Number: 9780712358798
Details: Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official but sanitised images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts - actual and envisaged - which perhaps present a more truthful picture. But the maps and panoramas are far more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about them concerns, assumptions, ambitions and prejudices of Londoners at the time when they were created. The book reveals the 'inside story' behind one of the world's greatest cities.
EAN: 8601404421921
Package Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.8 x 1.3 inches
Languages: English