The Markets of London

Forshaw, Alec

Bergström, Theo

History

Penguin??Books

Smithfield, past & present

Heinemann

Smithfield Past and Present

Europe

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Book by Coen, Terence, Forshaw, Alec

The Square Mile: The City of London in Colour

Coen, Terence

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

It is said that however long you live, and however far you travel, the streets and fields where you played as a child will always be home to you. So Cambridge is for Alec Forshaw. This is a story of a childhood in Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by three undergraduate years and three decades of frequent and regular visits until the ties of the parental home were broken. These are memories set down before they too disappear and they recall a Cambridge which for many will have faded.

Growing Up in Cambridge

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The History Press

Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights shone brightest. In reality, it was still a city struggling to find its post-war identity, full of declining industries and derelict docklands, a townscape blighted by undeveloped bomb sites, demonic motorway proposals and slum clearance schemes. The streets were full of street hawkers and greasy-spoon cafes, but enlivened by ghettos of immigrants and student culture. Ideas of traffic constraint and recycling rubbish were in their infancy. It was a decade which saw the three-day week, the Notting Hill riots and the last of the anti-Vietnam war protests. This sequel to Growing Up in Cambridge portrays the London of decades past as it appeared to a young man in his twenties, finding his feet, coming of age, and stumbling across the sights and sounds of an extraordinary city.

1970s London: Discovering the Capital

Traces the history of London's parks, describes heaths, commons, woods, mansions, squares, Royal and municipal parks, Kew Gardens, the zoo and the churchyards, and looks at the highlights of each location

The Open Spaces of London

Travel

Allison Busby

The 1980s was a decade of immense change in London as well as across the rest of the country, setting in motion social and economic forces that shape much that we recognise today in the capital, which experienced considerable upheaval in the process.In this book author Alec Forshaw presents a portrait of 1980s London using a selection of previously unpublished photographs by Theo Bergström. This was the era of the Big Bang and deregulation of the financial institutions in the City, the abandonment of Fleet Street by the newspaper industry, the demise of the GLC, the beginning of regeneration in Docklands, and the last days of old Billingsgate Market. While some areas witnessed gentrification, spiralling property prices and a myriad of new places to eat out, other places like Brixton and Tottenham were recovering from riots. Bergström's evocative images and Forshaw's perceptive text capture a changing and uncertain world on the streets of London.

1980s London: Portrait of a Decade of Change

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Amberley Publishing

The last 25 years or so have witnessed redevelopment in the City of London on an unprecedented scale, following the deregulation of the financial markets, the so-called Big Bang,” in the mid-1980s. As the City has earned its place as a true global financial center, the majority of its office space has been rebuilt, and developers have taken a much more adventurous approach, commissioning such leading British and international architects as Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, and Richard Rogers. New City is the first book to examine in depth the creation of one of the world’s largest collections of cutting-edge architecture  not just the prestigious office blocks that have changed the skyline, but also the cultural institutions, retail sites and public spaces. Following an introduction that explores the context for the rebuilding of the City, the main part of the book is divided into 12 concise walk-throughs of the major areas. Authoritatively written by a former urban planner and with all-new photography throughout, this book is an indispensable architectural guide for professionals and the public alike.

New City: Contemporary Architecture in the City of London

Architecture

Merrell Publishers

This volume offers a detailed look at the city that could rightly claim to have been the capital of Art Nouveau–Brussels. The first comprehensive overview to the Art Nouveau experience in the city, it presents close looks at key buildings in eleven different parts of the city, buildings designed and decorated by some of the greatest names in the movement.

Brussels Art Nouveau: Architecture & Design

History & Criticism

Unicorn Publishing Group

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