Review:Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell. Wiley, 288 pp, £39.99

By and Ralph Kent Ralph Kent2010-02-04T15:07:00

Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell.

This ambitious portrait of London has the best aspirations, but does not seem to know if it is trying to be a chatty historical run-through of some of the city’s highlights, or to provide a more focused, diagrammatic approach to understanding the capital.

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