Homely Virtues
David Cannadine, 4 August 1983
London: The Unique City
by Steen Eiler Rasmussen.
MIT, 468 pp., £7.30, May 1982,0 262 68027 0 Show More
by Steen Eiler Rasmussen.
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,
“... instantly recognise the force of Olsen’s argument. The fact that this description derives from Muthesius’s book indicates his indebtedness to Olsen and, in turn, to Rasmussen. Again, he is interested in private, not public wealth, leasehold estates and control, and in the British preference for one-family houses rather than multi-storey ... ”
