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“... 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 ...”

“... 1900s. It must have been a couple of years later that I bought a copy of London the Unique City by Steen EilerRasmussen. First published in 1934, it gives a Dane’s take on the look of London, appreciative of both its architectural and its social history, and aware of its oddities. Even at the time ...”

“... of the play? There have been some fine achievements. Few have described London so perceptively as Steen EilerRasmussen, who saw it in 1937 as The Unique City. More recently, both David Piper in his Companion Guide (1964) and Christopher Hibbert in Biography of a City (1969) have written with elegance and ...”

“... the Georgian street, so hated by the Victorians but much celebrated by such overseas observers as Steen EilerRasmussen, whose London: The Unique City was published in English in 1937, not long before Willow Road was completed. Later, when designing for infill sites, Goldfinger remarked on the importance of what he ...”

“... Hebbert himself is still partial to the formulation invented by the Danish planning historian Steen EilerRasmussen in the Thirties and ratled out in corny guidebooks ever since, that London is just a collection of overgrown villages. This is repeated to prevent people looking into the urban abyss and ...”