For the Good of Our Health

Andrew Saint

  • Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann
    Chicago, 301 pp, £17.50, January 2006, ISBN 0 226 07690 3

Just beyond Croydon – I will not share its exact whereabouts – there is a lane I take whenever I drive to visit my father in his retirement. For six precious minutes, it unfolds up and down hill through unspoilt Surrey countryside. There are just three houses along its length, one a farm. I seldom meet another car, but often see pheasants and once encountered a badger. On the way home, from its highest point I glimpse a panorama of central London laid out before me, 14 miles to the north.

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