This Other London Adventures In The Overlooked City

Author : John Rogers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0007557183
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City written by John Rogers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches.

Author : John Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781739539207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to New London written by John Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Welcome to New London' is not just a book about a city; it's a vivid, personal account of a city in flux, where John Rogers' passion for exploration and his commitment to bearing witness to change converge.

Author : Ged Pope
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914308X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Tiny Moments Blazing written by Ged Pope and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London. The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell’s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith’s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.

Author : Tina Richardson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783480874
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Inside Out written by Tina Richardson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the individual. Through a variety of case studies, it offers a British perspective of international spaces, from the British metropolis to the post-communist European city. By situating the current strand of psychogeography within its historical, political and creative context along with careful consideration of the challenges it faces Walking Inside Out offers a vision for the future of the discipline.

Author : Alastair Bonnett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651398X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Map written by Alastair Bonnett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day—and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures every fascinating change. In Beyond the Map, Bonnett presents stories of the world’s most extraordinary spaces—many unmarked on any official map—all of which challenge our assumptions about what we know—or think we know—about our world. As cultural, religious and political boundaries ebb and flow with each passing day, traditional maps unravel and fragment. With the same adventurous spirit he effused in the acclaimed Unruly Places, Bonnett takes us to thirty-nine incredible spots around the globe to explore these changing boundaries and stimulate our geographical imagination. Some are tied to disruptive contemporary political turbulence, such as the rise of ISIL, Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. Others explore the secret places not shown on Google Earth or reflect fast-changing landscapes. Beyond the Map journeys out into a world of mysterious, daunting and magical spaces. It is a world of hidden cultures and ghostly memories, of uncountable new islands and curious stabs at paradise. From the phantom tunnels of the Tokyo subway to a stunning movie-set re-creation of 1950s-era Moscow; from the caliphate of the Islamic State to virtual cybertopias—this book serves as an imaginative guide to the farthest fringes of geography.

Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786071754
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last London written by Iain Sinclair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.

Author : Merlin Coverley
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842438700
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychogeography written by Merlin Coverley and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "psychogeography" is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism—where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of urban space. The relationship between a city and its inhabitants is measured firstly through an imaginative and literary response, secondly on foot through walking the city. This creates a tradition of the writer as walker and has both a literary and a political component. This guide examines the origins of psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flâneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller. This guide offers both an explanation and definition of the terms involved, an analysis of the key figures and their work, and practical information on psychogeographical groups and organizations.

Author : Charles Augustus Goodrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land We Live In; Or, Travels, Sketches and Adventures in North and South America written by Charles Augustus Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : London city of Lond. sch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of London school magazine written by London city of Lond. sch and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Wolfreys
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591949
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing London written by J. Wolfreys and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .