Swiping at Suburbs
Andrew Saint: The course of British urbanism, 31 March 2005
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
by Tristram Hunt.
Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £25, June 2004,0 297 60767 7 Show More
by Tristram Hunt.
Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £25, June 2004,
“... Southey, Carlyle, Disraeli, Roscoe, Dickens, Cobden, Bright, Ruskin, Macaulay, Eliot, Gaskell, Arnold, Chadwick and Toulmin-Smith are all there; and so are Tocqueville, Guizot and Sismondi. At some cost to coherence, the star-studded cast rolls by. Nor are the arts forgotten. One reason Hunt so fiercely champions Britain’s old industrial cities is that ... ”