London's Continued Vitality Has Been In Spite Of The Absence
of a strategic authority. A boom in tourism, government and finan- cial jobs has coincided with a property price surge (soon to recommence) primed by tax breaks for the rich and......
Porter's Belief In London's Decline Is Full Of Irony. The
supposed collapse from Six- ties 'innocence' into Nineties cynicism and decay could have been traced at any point in history. He deplores the 'veneer of modernity on an ageing......
I Am Sure An Earlier Porter Would Have Deplored The
sprawl of Metroland, the supercinemas, the Great West Road facto- ries and the garden suburbs that he now places in the warp and woof of London his- tory. He would have opposed......
Centre Point
We expect London to deliver life's groceries to our back door. If it fails, we accuse it of terminal decline I once heard Cyril Ray tell a group of friends that, after living......
For My Part I Find The City Incomparably More Civilised
than it was in Porter's rose- tinted Sixties. The buildings have been q; : s 41 , 0 62,4 \I \\ `Well, there it is in a nutshell.' cleaned. New architecture is more sensitive to......
I Like Political Spice In My Soup, But This Is
ridiculous. The fogeyism of middle age has Porter by his vitals. Like many an aging commentator, he finds the London of his youth no longer an exhilarating place of novelty,......
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