Hidden London
Title | Hidden London PDF eBook |
Author | David Bownes |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0300245793 |
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
London's Underground Spaces
Title | London's Underground Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Haewon Hwang |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0748676090 |
This study explores how writers such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces and how, in spite of the transformation of London through underground sewers, undergrou
London's Underground Spaces
Title | London's Underground Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Haewon Hwang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780748693818 |
This study explores how writers such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces and how, in spite of the transformation of London through underground sewers underground railway and suburban cemeteries, these spaces are surprisingly absent from their works.
Bright Underground Spaces
Title | Bright Underground Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | David Lawrence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Architects |
ISBN | 9781854143204 |
London's Underground, Revised Edition
Title | London's Underground, Revised Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Green |
Publisher | Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2023-10-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0711289050 |
Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
London Underground
Title | London Underground PDF eBook |
Author | David Ashford |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-05-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1781387087 |
Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to Pop music and graffiti, this book suggests that the tube-network is a transitional form, linking the alienated spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism.
Secret Underground London
Title | Secret Underground London PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Catford |
Publisher | Folly Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN | 9780956440570 |
Much has been written about the mysterious underground world that lies beneath the streets of London but few have ever had the opportunity to see so many aspects of it first-hand and make a detailed photographic record of all that they have seen. This is one of the two factors that make this book so different from all the others that have come before it. The second factor is the meticulous research that has gone into ensuring that the history and background narrative to each of the locations described and illustrated are both concise and accurate.