LONDON. A LIFE IN MAPS

Like all the great historic cities of Europe, London appears to us solid and unchanging. We feel that we can still explore the Londo n of Dickens, Dr. Johnson, Defoe, Wren and even Shakespeare. The very names St. Pauls, Smithfield, Charing Cross, St. Jamess, seem to link us with those past eras. But this solidity is an illusion, for throughout its long history London has been changing and evo lving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards. Maps are a vivid i...[Read more]