Andrew Saint

Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London; his most recent book is Architect and Engineer.

In the LRB Archive:

• Walls, Fences, Grilles and Intercoms: Security and the City · 19 November 2009

  • Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-Century City by Anna Minton

• On Jews Walk: Eleanor Marx’s Blue Plaque · 9 October 2008

• Diary: Foscolo’s Grave · 20 September 2007

• For the Good of Our Health: the Spread of Suburbia · 6 April 2006

  • Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann

• Diary: Goodbye to the Routemaster · 26 January 2006

• I had to refrain: Pre-Raphaelite Houses · 1 December 2005

  • Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture by Sheila Kirk

• Swiping at Suburbs: the course of British urbanism · 31 March 2005

  • Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt

• When Chicago Went Classical: a serial killer and the World’s Fair · 1 April 2004

  • Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

• In Le Havre: The rebuilding of France · 6 February 2003

• The Danger of Giving In: George Gilbert Scott Jr · 17 October 2002

  • An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-97) and the Late Gothic Revival by Gavin Stamp

• Successive Applications of Sticking-Plaster on the urban history of Britain · 1 November 2001

  • The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol. III, 1840-1950 edited by Martin Daunton

• What architects said before they said ‘space’ on the vocabulary of modern architecture · 30 November 2000

  • Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture by Adrian Forty

• Diary on the Jubilee Line Extension · 20 January 2000

• Aldermanic Depression: London is good for you · 4 February 1999

  • London: A History by Francis Sheppard
  • London: More by Fortune than Design by Michael Hebbert

• How to Save the City-Dweller on cities · 21 May 1998

  • Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers

• Talking to the Radiator · 2 October 1997

  • Corbusier’s Formative Years by H. Allen Brooks

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