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Book SynopsisWhen 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.
Table of ContentsContent include
Introduction
Parklife
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 Cemetery
The 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 Theatre
Palaces & 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 Fields
The 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 Column
Transport
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, Waterloo
Streetlife & Public Spaces
Piccadilly & Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Square & Whitehall
Shaftesbury Avenue
Regent’s Street
Burlington Arcade
Camden Market
Pubs
London’s food markets – Smithfield, Billingsgate, New Covent Garden,
Residential: Georgian squares – Fitzroy Square, Georgian terraces – Smith Square, Victorian terraces and squares, brutalist architecture
Rivers 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
