Homely Virtues
David Cannadine, 4 August 1983
London: The Unique City
by Steen EilerRasmussen.
MIT, 468 pp., £7.30, May 1982,0 262 68027 0 Show More
by Steen EilerRasmussen.
MIT, 468 pp., £7.30, May 1982,
Town Planning in London: The 18th and 19th Centuries
by Donald Olsen.
Yale, 245 pp., £25, October 1982,0 300 02914 4 Show More
by Donald Olsen.
Yale, 245 pp., £25, October 1982,
The English Terraced House
by Stefan Muthesius.
Yale, 278 pp., £12.50, November 1982,0 300 02871 7 Show More
by Stefan Muthesius.
Yale, 278 pp., £12.50, November 1982,
London as it might have been
by Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde.
Murray, 223 pp., £12.50, May 1982,0 7195 3857 2 Show More
by Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde.
Murray, 223 pp., £12.50, May 1982,
“... distinctly unimpressive. The first 20th-century writer to confront this conundrum historically was Steen EilerRasmussen, a Danish architect, town-planner and Anglophile, whose book, London: The Unique City, was published in 1934, and is now deservedly, if tardily reprinted. As a lifelong observer of the great ... ”