Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps
«'A splendid – and necessary – publication … a great resource' - Iain Sinclair»
Charles Booth's landmark survey of 19th-century London, published for the first time in one volume. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780500022290
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 37 x 27 cm
Anmeldelser
«'A splendid – and necessary – publication … a great resource' - Iain Sinclair»
«'[An] exquisite edition of Booth’s maps' - BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking»
«'Booth’s maps have been beautifully reproduced in [this] new book' - LSE Review of Books»
«'What Booth’s poverty maps ultimately show is a London where rich and poor lived right next door to each other: in that sense, at least, today’s London is no different' - Guardian»
«'Compelling – once you start you can’t stop' - BBC Radio London: The Robert Elms Show»
«'A visual shrine to the Booth survey … the essays are all accomplished and informative and really do help spell out the context in which the maps were produced … these large-scale maps are a delight and it is a joy to have them' - Times Literary Supplement»
«'Charles Booth’s famous maps of Victorian London offer a chance to reflect on how the city has changed - and how it hasn’t' - Bloomberg»
«'Exquisite … the book really is a beautiful thing, with a reverence for the source material and playfulness in the design' - World of Interiors»